This sonnet is for readers thinking about mortality and the aftermath of loss, especially if they lost someone ... a layered poetic nod to the idea that love and attraction aren’t confined ...

Another modern poet might have preferred a single long poem to examine and express his emotional contradictions (Roethke's The Lost ... love--emerges. So it is with Berryman's sonnets.

The Bard wrote 154 of them, so at least some should resonate! Also, please note that although many of the sonnets deal with love, gender was fluid in Elizabethan theater. Biological men played all ...

Magno and Giustinian portray their friendship with the vocabulary of Petrarchan love. In one sonnet, Magno describes ...

While he may not have conceived the sonnet form, he certainly personalized ... I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all ...

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We can relate to the narrator’s engagement and reflections on love. A new collection of poems by one of Pakistan’s foremost English poets utilises the genre of sonnet to muse about love ...

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Lennie James is as good as he’s ever been as the dapper, mercurial Barry in this new adaptation of Bernardine Evaristo’s ...