That Time will come and take my love away… When I have seen such interchange of state, The Sonnets always wriggle free of such attempts to pin them down to a specific reading. But as with so much to do with the Sonnets, this remains mere speculation. The italicising and capitalising of ‘ Hews’ in some editions is interpreted as a hint, a pun on the name of (entirely fictitious) boy actor Willie Hughes, whom Wilde identifies as the real-life inspiration for the Fair Youth. to whom the 1609 publication of the Sonnets was dedicated. H.’, took the line ‘A man in hew all Hews in his controlling’ as a clue to the identity of the mysterious Mr W. Oscar Wilde, in his 1889 short story ‘The Portrait of Mr W. Sonnet 20 has prompted more analysis and discussion than virtually any other Shakespeare sonnet. Its opening line, ‘A woman’s face, with Nature’s own hand painted’, immediately establishes the sonnet’s theme: Shakespeare is discussing the effeminate beauty of the Fair Youth, the male addressee of these early sonnets. Sonnet 20 by William Shakespeare is one of the more famous early poems, after Sonnet 18. With shifting change, as is false women’s fashion… Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion Ī woman’s gentle heart, but not acquainted A woman’s face, with Nature’s own hand painted,
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