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By: Garin Kilpatrick

I recently completed the 5 poems in the Eduify Poetry Series below with accompanying videos that feature scrolling words of the poems as they are read. These videos and others are featured on our YouTube channel. If you check out our channel be sure to click “subscribe” so that you stay inside our video literature loop! Each of the poetry podcasts below has its own individual post, with accompanying analysis.  These analytical posts can be found by clicking the links to the individual posts for each podcast below.

Robert Frost – The Road not Taken

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Goethe – The Castle on the Hill

Rudyard Kipling – If

William Shakespeare – Of Youth and Love

Louis Carrol – Jabberwocky

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By: Garin Kilpatrick

Sonnet 76 is a Shakespearean Sonnet that shares a striking thematic semblance to his much longer poem A Lover’s Complaint. The Theme of Sonnet 76 is youth and in within the Sonnet Shakespeare does a candid job of confronting his ability to spin his own style by Spending again what is already spent.

Sonnet 76 mirrors Shakespeare’s A lover’s complaint by touching on the themes of youth and love. Despite sharing the same themes as A Lovers Complaint, Sonnet 76 has managed to do so without quite as much controversy. A Lovers Complaint was so controversial that Slate.com Author Ron Rosenbaum even questioned should “A Lover’s Complaint” be kicked out of the canon? I disagree with Ron and the idea that abolishing any of Shakespeare’s work from the Shakespearean canon could be a good thing.

My impression of the impact of Shakespeare is more along the lines of this quote attributed to Ben Johnson:

“He was not for an age, but for all time.”

The sonnet below is no timid example of Shakespeare’s timelessness.

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