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1. • • Sonnet 147 is written from the perspective of a poet who regards the love he holds for his mistress and lover as a sickness, and more specifically, as a fever. The sonnet details the internal battle the poet has between his reason (or head) and the love he has for his mistress (his heart).
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   What is the meaning of Sonnet 147?

   • Desire is death, which physic did except. Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. Sonnet 147 is one of 154 sonnets written by English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. Sonnet 147 is written from the perspective of a poet who regards the love he holds for his mistress and lover as a sickness, and more specifically, as a fever.

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   How many lines are in Shakespeare's Sonnet 147?

   • ‘Sonnet 147’ by William Shakespeare is a traditional sonnet that follows the pattern Shakespeare popularized. It contains fourteen lines that are divided into two quatrains, or sets of four lines, and one sestet, or set of six lines. They rhyme ABABCDCDEFEFGG as the vast majority of Shakespeare’s sonnets do.

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   • The best Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever, longing still study guide on the planet. The fastest way to understand the poem's meaning, themes, form, rhyme scheme, meter, and poetic devices.

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   How many quatrains does Sonnet 147 have?

   • Eventually, however, the battle between the poet's reason and his love comes to an end. Unable to give up his lover, the poet gives up rationale and his love becomes all consuming, sending him to the brink of madness. Sonnet 147 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.

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   What does Sonnet 147 say about the Dark Lady?

   • Past I , now son past , And tic- with er; My and dis as men's , At dom the ly ;    For have thee , and thee ,    Who as as , as as . ’Sonnet 147’ by William Shakespeare compares the speaker’s love for the Dark Lady to an illness he can’t and won’t get rid of.

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   What is a sickly appetite to please in Sonnet 147?

   • Th’ uncertain sickly appetite to please. In the first lines of ‘Sonnet 147,’ the speaker begins by using a simile to describe his love/lust as a “fever,” one that is consuming him. It feeds on his common sense and reason to preserve itself. His body’s desire for the Dark Lady is making him worse while fuelling the illness itself.

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   ‘Sonnet 147’ by William Shakespeare is a traditional sonnet that follows the pattern Shakespeare popularized. It contains fourteen lines that are divided into two quatrains , or sets of four lines, and one sestet , or set of six lines.

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   "Sonnet 147" is part of a series of Shakespeare's sonnets addressed to a figure known as the "Dark Lady." In the poem, the speaker compares his love and desire for this person to an illness, one that's robbed him of the ability to act or think rationally.

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   By William Shakespeare. My love is as a fever, longing still. For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, Th’ uncertain sickly appetite to please. My reason, the physician to my love, Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, Hath left me, and I desperate now approve.

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   Sonnet 147 is one of 154 sonnets written by English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. Sonnet 147 is written from the perspective of a poet who regards the love he holds for his mistress and lover as a sickness, and more specifically, as a fever.

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   The poet yearns to understand why, in spite of the judgment of reason (5), he still is enslaved by her charms. Confused by his own inexplicable urges, the poet's whole being is at odds with his insatiable "sickly appetite" (4) for the dark lady.

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   Literature Notes. Shakespeare's Sonnets. Sonnet 147. Summary and Analysis Sonnet 147. The final sonnets concerning the mistress, beginning with this one, return the poet to the disturbed state of previous sonnets.

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    Oct 7, 2024 · “Sonnet 147: My Love Is as A Fever, Longing Still” by William Shakespeare first appeared in 1598 in the collection “The Passionate Pilgrim”. This sonnet explores the overwhelming power of love, comparing it to a consuming fever.