{"id":101,"date":"2017-02-08T12:18:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T17:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=101"},"modified":"2017-02-08T12:18:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T17:18:48","slug":"sonnet-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/romancing-the-sonnet\/sonnet-62\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet 62"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sonnet 62\u2014in which the speaker examines his own narcissism, including both external and internal beauty\u2014contains many repetitive \u201cs\u201d sounds throughout: \u201cself-love,\u201d \u201csoul,\u201d \u201cglass,\u201d etc. The slippery sound of the \u201cs\u201d relates the feel of the poem to the subject of narcissism, connecting the self-involved words together as the speaker struggles with his own acknowledged \u201csin\u201d (1). I thought it was interesting that the only line that doesn\u2019t contain the \u201cs\u201d sound is line 10, in which the speaker acknowledges the decay of his external beauty as he ages. Realizing that he has become \u201cBeated and chapped with tanned antiquity\u201d (10), the speaker temporarily abandons the smoothly-connected \u201cs\u201d sounds in exchange for more arresting \u201cb,\u201d \u201cp,\u201d and \u201ct\u201d sounds, which bring the flow to a halt just as the speaker\u2019s mirror gives him a reality check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonnet 62\u2014in which the speaker examines his own narcissism, including both external and internal beauty\u2014contains many repetitive \u201cs\u201d sounds throughout: \u201cself-love,\u201d \u201csoul,\u201d \u201cglass,\u201d etc. The slippery sound of the \u201cs\u201d relates the feel of the poem to the subject of narcissism, connecting the self-involved words together as the speaker struggles with his own acknowledged \u201csin\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":408,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-romancing-the-sonnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}