Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| gptkbp:instance_of |
gptkb:sonnet
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| gptkbp:adaptations |
Musical settings.
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| gptkbp:analysis |
Explores the nature of beauty.
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| gptkbp:contains_song |
ABABCDCDEFEFGG
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| gptkbp:critical_reception |
Widely studied.
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| gptkbp:criticism |
A. C. Bradley.
Harold Bloom. Helen Vendler. Stephen Greenblatt. T. S. Eliot. |
| gptkbp:cultural_impact |
Influenced later poets.
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| gptkbp:form |
gptkb:sonnet
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| gptkbp:historical_context |
Renaissance England.
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| gptkbp:historical_interpretation |
Contrasts physical and eternal beauty.
Questions the essence of beauty. Reflects on the nature of love. Symbolizes the quest for beauty. |
| https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
Sonnet 53
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| gptkbp:influence |
Romantic Poetry
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| gptkbp:influenced_by |
Classical literature.
Petrarchan sonnets. Philosophical ideas of beauty. |
| gptkbp:inspiration |
Artworks.
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| gptkbp:language |
English
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| gptkbp:line |
And, to the fairest, the fairest of all.
What is your substance, whereof are you made? |
| gptkbp:literary_devices |
gptkb:Metaphor
gptkb:personification Imagery Alliteration. End-stopped lines. Enjambment. Assonance. |
| gptkbp:literary_movement |
Early Modern.
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| gptkbp:notable_quote |
And, to the fairest.
For where is she? To what base uses we may return. What is your substance? |
| gptkbp:notable_themes |
Eternal beauty.
Transience of beauty. |
| gptkbp:number_of_lines |
gptkb:14
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| gptkbp:part_of |
gptkb:Shakespeare's_Sonnets
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| gptkbp:performance |
Recited in poetry readings.
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| gptkbp:published_by |
gptkb:Thomas_Thorpe
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| gptkbp:published_in |
1609
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| gptkbp:related_works |
Other sonnets by Shakespeare.
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| gptkbp:scholarly_analysis |
Examined in literary criticism.
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| gptkbp:style |
Elizabethan
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| gptkbp:subject_matter |
gptkb:Love
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| gptkbp:theme |
gptkb:Beauty
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| gptkbp:themes |
Identity.
Art. Mortality. Desire. |
| gptkbp:written_by |
gptkb:William_Shakespeare
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| gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:William_Shakespeare
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| gptkbp:bfsLayer |
4
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