Sonnet 87 Questions and Answers
Sonnet 87
What are the things that friendship is compared to in the poem of sonnet 87 by Shakespeare?
Most of the comparisons being made between the narrator and his supposed wealthy benefactor or lord are comparisons using legal metaphors. The most noticeable legal metaphor of their friendship is...
Sonnet 87
Comment on the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 87.
The speaker of this sonnet has been rejected by another person, perhaps a lover. The speaker has lost his beloved to a rival. This sonnet is said to belong to a group of 10 Shakespearean sonnets...
Sonnet 87
Give a brief account of Shakespeare's Sonnet 87.
Sonnet 87 describes the termination of a relationship. Interestingly, much of the verbiage refers to legal terms (charter, bonds, hold, grant) which suggests that the contract of the relationship...