Elena Maslova-Levin


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Sonnets in colour: 35-43

This chapter is rather an intermission than an act in the drama of the sonnets sequence; their speaker faces and accepts being separated from his lover, and tries to make sense of it, to create a meaning out of his despair.

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Sonnet 35: Such civil war is in my love and hate
Sonnet 36: Let me confess that we two must be twain
Sonnet 37: made lame by Fortune's dearest spite (3) (2013-01-25)
Sonnet 38: Be thou the tenth Muse
Sonnet 39: How to make one twain
Sonnet 40: Lascivious grace (3) (2013-03-13)
Sonnet 41:  where thou art forced to break a twofold truth (2) (2013-03-20)
Sonnet 42: A loss in love
Sonnet 43: When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see (2) (2013-04-24)