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Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 15   AIL 1405 short lesson, about 20 seconds

What the Sonnets Concern

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The idea

Time and its damage, love's constancy or failure, the poet's own writing, and the worth of the person addressed. A candidate who knows the recurring subjects reads faster, because the poem's likely direction is available from its first quatrain.

In practice

Time, love, writing, worth.

Where people slip

Knowing the subjects speeds the reading.

Your place on the trail

Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.

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