Sonnet 53

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:poet
gptkbp:bfsLayer 2
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Educational_Institution
gptkbp:adaptation Musical settings.
gptkbp:analysis Explores the nature of beauty.
gptkbp:art_movement Early Modern.
gptkbp:contains_track ABABCDCDEFEFGG
gptkbp:critical_reception Widely studied.
gptkbp:cultural_impact Influenced later poets.
gptkbp:form gptkb:poet
gptkbp:historical_context Renaissance England.
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
gptkbp:influence Romantic Poetry
gptkbp:influenced_by Classical literature.
Petrarchan sonnets.
Philosophical ideas of beauty.
gptkbp:inspiration Artworks.
gptkbp:is_criticized_for A. C. Bradley.
Harold Bloom.
Helen Vendler.
Stephen Greenblatt.
T. S. Eliot.
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:literary_devices gptkb:Metaphor
gptkb:Person
Imagery
Alliteration.
End-stopped lines.
Enjambment.
Assonance.
gptkbp:notable_quote And, to the fairest.
For where is she?
To what base uses we may return.
What is your substance?
gptkbp:part_of gptkb:Shakespeare's_Sonnets
gptkbp:performance Recited in poetry readings.
gptkbp:product_line gptkb:14
And, to the fairest, the fairest of all.
What is your substance, whereof are you made?
gptkbp:published_by gptkb:Thomas_Thorpe
1609
gptkbp:related_works Other sonnets by Shakespeare.
gptkbp:scholarly_analysis Examined in literary criticism.
gptkbp:style Elizabethan
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Love
gptkbp:theme gptkb:Beauty
gptkbp:themes Identity.
Art.
Mortality.
Desire.
Eternal beauty.
Transience of beauty.
gptkbp:written_by gptkb:Educational_Institution