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Sonnet 91: Some Glory in Their Birth, Some in Their Skill

Sonnet 91: Some Glory in Their Birth, Some in Their Skill

Update: 2024-07-14

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With Sonnet 91, William Shakespeare reclaims his place in the young man's favour, and for the first time in a while – in the published sequence since the group that contains Sonnets 71 to 76 – speaks primarily of how the young man's love privileges him, Shakespeare, above all else.

It is for the most part a return to a happier, more confident, more celebratory tone, which, however, tellingly is then tempered with a closing couplet that once again conjures up the spectre of this love being taken away entirely at the young man's whim.

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Sonnet 91: Some Glory in Their Birth, Some in Their Skill

Sonnet 91: Some Glory in Their Birth, Some in Their Skill

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