#decyphered

I #amwriting more and more, but am I getting any better? I felt Sonnet 2 was a bit easy to break down, but I still don't know what challenges I will face as I dig into Sonnet 3.

In an attempt to learn how to write better, I am continuing the Bradbury Challenge. I will read poetry, short stories and technical articles in order to contemplate why they work. In this post, I will be working with Shakespeare’s Sonnet 3.

“Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest

Now is the time that face should form another;

Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,

Thou dost…

My second breakdown and analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnets. This week I #amwriting about owning my biases and grounding the Bard because that's where the words took me. Sonnet 2 Decyphered

In an attempt to learn how to write better, I am continuing the Bradbury Challenge. I will read poetry, short stories and technical articles in order to contemplate why they work. In this post, I will be working with Shakespeare’s Sonnet 2.

Sonnet 2

“When forty winters shall beseige thy brow, And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field, Thy youth’s proud livery, so gazed on now, Will be a tatter’d…

As I am teaching myself to be a better writer I will be breaking down classic poetry, short stories, and essays. For starters I #amwriting an analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 1.

In an attempt to learn how to write better, I have given myself the Bradbury Challenge. I will read poetry, short stories and technical articles in order to contemplate why they work. In this post, I will be working with Shakespeare’s Sonnet 1.

Sonnet 1

“From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty’s rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir…