My love is as a fever, longing still
Shakespeare, William
Primary Category:
Literature /
Poetry
Genre: Sonnet
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Annotated by:
- Chen, Irene
- Aull, Felice
- Date of entry: May-07-2001
- Last revised: Sep-01-2006
Summary
The unrequited love of the narrator is compared to a devastating fever. Reason, "the physician," is ignored and cannot abate the disease. Without reason, madness (fever) reigns; and the poet renounces his beloved as "black as hell, as dark as night."
Primary Source
The Histories and Poems of Shakespeare
Publisher
Random House
Place Published
New York
Edition
V. 2, Modern Library