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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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By: Garin Kilpatrick

The eduify Poetry Analysis Series will consist of five separate Blog posts, and this introduction post. Each of the following five posts will analyze one of the five Poems by the five acclaimed Authors. Stay tuned to @eduify and @GarinKilpatrick as a new post will be announced every few days! The Poems we will be Analyzing are written by the 5 dead poets pictured above: Kipling, Frost, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Carrol.  Shakespeare has been in the ground the longest but nonetheless his poetry and plays remain very alive!  To learn when the aforementioned Authors lived, and what their first names are (and which Author used a pen name) simply read the rest of the post. You will also find introductions to these well written men and mention of the Poems that will be analyzed.

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