Sonnet 19

Name: Sonnet 19
Author: William Shakespeare

Nineteenth of 154 by William Shakespeare

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Also known as Sonnets. 19

Author: William Shakespeare
Released: 1840
Language: English
Follows: Sonnet 18
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Followed by: Sonnet 20
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Sonnet 19 is one of 154 sonnets published by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare in 1609. It is considered by some to be the final sonnet of the initial procreation sequence. The sonnet addresses time directly, as it allows time its great power to destroy all things in nature, but the poem forbids time to erode the young man's fair appearance. The poem casts time in the role of a poet holding an “antique pen”. The theme is redemption, through poetry, of time's inevitable decay. Though there is compunction in the implication that the young man himself will not survive time's effects, because redemption brought by the granting of everlasting youth is not actual, but rather ideal or poetic.

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Part of: Shakespeare's sonnets
Copyright status: public domain applies to jurisdiction: countries with 100 years pma or shorter
public domain applies to jurisdiction: United States
Last line: My love shall in my verse ever live young.
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First line: Devouring Time blunt thou the lion's paws,
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Series ordinal: 19
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Has version, edition or translation: Q109205846
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Form of creative work: poem
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