Sonnet 101: O Truant Muse, What Shall Be Thy Amends

Sonnet 101: O Truant Muse, What Shall Be Thy Amends

Update: 2024-10-06
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Although at first glance Sonnet 101 can stand on its own, it so closely connects to Sonnet 100 that it really in all likelihood should be considered to form with it a pair within this group of four sonnets that they are both part of.


Like Sonnet 100, it addresses itself to Shakespeare's Muse – his poetic inspiration – in a series of rhetorical questions that seek to encourage her to return to him to write further poetry for and about his young lover.


In doing so, it purports to offer a possible explanation for the Muse's absence, but immediately rejects this as unsatisfactory, reminding the Muse of her duty to give the object of his love longevity way beyond his own presence on earth.

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Sonnet 101: O Truant Muse, What Shall Be Thy Amends

Sonnet 101: O Truant Muse, What Shall Be Thy Amends

Sebastian Michael