Analysis and Interpretation of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 60

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1 (Sehr Gut), University of Graz (Anglistik), course: Proseminar Literary Studies (Poetry), language: English, abstract: In the following term paper I am going to analyse the sonnet 60 by William Shakespeare. The aim of this paper is to examine sonnet 60 in matters of its external form, its discourse and story level as well as its various different interpretations in general.

I decided to focus primarily on the sonnet itself and targeted to provide an accurate description of the poem¿s characteristic features, syntactic and semantic levels as well as its phonetics and how these factors influence the meaning of the sonnet. Therefore I will not go into details concerning the sonnet¿s author William Shakespeare or the poem¿s history of origins.

Nevertheless I engaged myself with some secondary literature in order to gain a broader insight into the matter of the subject. A list of literature, I used for this interpretation can be found in the bibliography below.

Along with this secondary literature the term paper is generally based on the information, provided by the power point presentation of the course Literary Studies 1.