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Once again, your analysis breaks down when confronted with reality.

>>But if you take the sonnet sequence as a whole, things look
>>different.

Ah, but how do you know that the sequence of the sonnets is:

1. The sequence in which Shakespeare wrote them?
2. The sequence in which Shakespeare intended they be read?
3. Referring to the same event?
4. Referring to actual events, or fictional ones?

For all you know, sonnets 1 and 2 were written in the reverse order, ten years apart, referrring to two completely different incidents, one real, one total fabrication, and only put in that order by the publisher because he dropped them on the floor and accidently mixed them up.

Any argument about the sequence has to address these issues or it is total gibberish.

Posted by Reality Chuck on April 17, 1997 at 07:52:24
In Reply to "Shall I Compare Thee to a Poppycock?" posted by Professor Mike on April 16, 1997 at 02:15:08

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