![]() The young man is unnamed, but many scholars believe he may have been Henry Wriothesley, the 3rd Earl of Southampton, to whom Shakespeare dedicated his long poem, Venus and Adonis, in 1593. The collection as a whole appears to tell a story, of the love of the poet for a young man of great beauty and high rank, and the frustration and anguish, as well as the joy, the poet experiences as a consequence of his love. Probably written in the early to mid-1590s, when the sonnet was a fashionable literary form, these poems are generally regarded as the finest sonnet sequence in the English language. ![]() The sonnet is one of a collection of 154 sonnets by Shakespeare that were first published in 1609. However, although the poet can do nothing to prevent this, he defies time by asserting that the friend will live forever through his verse. Eventually, time will also destroy the poet’s beautiful young friend. ![]() ![]() Shakespeare’s Sonnet 19 is about the destructive power of time which consumes everything in its path. ![]()
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