Shakespeare's Saddest Sonnet: Understanding Sonnet 64

Subscribe to Shakespeare Play by Play: https://www.youtube.com/@shakespeareplaybyplay I've taught Shakespeare's Sonnet 64 in about 100 class over the past 20 years and recently I've come to understanding something about it I had never noticed. This video is the story of that journey. Support me on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AmorSciendi Twitter @amorsciendi Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmorSciendi/ Editing by Unraveled: https://www.youtube.com/unraveled Sonnet 64 by William Shakespeare: When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-ras'd And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. References: Post, J. F. S. (2017, January 1). Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Poems. Oxford University Press. Crawforth, H., Scott-Baumann, E., & Whitehead, C. (2017, June 1). The Sonnets: The State of Play. Bloomsbury Publishing. Playlists: For more Poetry: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVvCCEORxLBMxUbUeGtXdbt3ze9bou57V Like this video? Try these: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVvCCEORxLBOMqZPjGS6NoTaY263uLxKb Never Let Me Go Analysis: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVvCCEORxLBPgwrfHjH1pVEpCXhvqH6Rw Going to a city and want to learn about the art there? Try these: London: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVvCCEORxLBPzilOXB-budalmCFLU8ujM Rome: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVvCCEORxLBMKMiuZs4cfcunrHd2t8nqr Paris: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVvCCEORxLBOOOIenrdNOEKGPo8qPSaJN New York: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVvCCEORxLBOe4t-uuWvI7XRxa2QfJhBc Florence: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVvCCEORxLBN9eVa303aFN61bznS0L3Kp Here are my collaborations with TED-Ed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReM-G9V5VrY&list=PLVvCCEORxLBNdEh0q8g43VTyD-GWm6Zm3 #shakespeare #sonnets #poetry