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shakespeare poem

Date Submitted: 12/21/2004 21:37:43
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 2 pages (659 words)
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FROM FAIREST CREATURES WE DESIRE INCREASE When God saw his creatures, he commanded them to increase and multiply. Shakespeare, in this sonnet, suggests we have internalized the paradisal command in an aestheticized form: From fairest creatures we desire increase. The sonnet begins, so to speak, in the desire for an Eden where beauty\'s rose will never die; but the fall quickly arrives with decease (where we expect, by comparative with increase, the milder decrease). …

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