Shakespeare's Saddest Sonnet: Understanding Sonnet 64

The video explores Shakespeare's Sonnet 64, highlighting its personal significance to the speaker and its deviation from traditional sonnet norms. It provides a historical overview of sonnet forms, comparing English and Italian styles, and analyzes Sonnet 18 as a classic example. The speaker reinterprets Sonnet 64, suggesting that its lack of resolution reflects the poet's eternal perspective, existing outside of time, and the sadness of witnessing inevitable decay.

What does the speaker imply about the nature of beauty and its preservation?

What insights does the speaker gain about the inevitability of change?

How does the poem illustrate the concept of fragmentation?

Discuss the role of poetry as portrayed in Sonnet #64.