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Get Word of the Day daily email! Test Your Vocabulary. Test your vocabulary with our question quiz! Love words? Need even more definitions? Homophones, Homographs, and Homonyms The same, but different. Merriam-Webster's Words of the Week - Nov. Ask the Editors 'Everyday' vs. This obviously echoes ll. Such thoughts of change, decay and mortality were the common property of poets of the age, if not of all ages. Perhaps more especially so for those living in cities as large as London at that time.
For London could be, at any time, and frequently was, stricken by the plague, causing mortality rates to rise dramatically, forcing theatres to close, and promoting a general exodus. It involved no great stretch of the imagination for Sh. What makes the great difference in this poem from those quoted, and from many others which touch upon the same or similar thoughts, is the way Sh. Let us however stick to the more especial matters of exegesis which need to be addressed.
The first four lines of the sonnet contain references not to the general passage of time and its destructiveness but to particular elements of that destruction.
Thus defaced, lofty towers, brass, mortal rage have references beyond the immediate generality of all things dying and decaying. One thinks also of the defacement and destruction of statues and images, which has been undertaken by religous zealots of one persuasion or another over the centuries, in this country, but also in many in Europe.
It is not uncommon to come across statues in churches in all countries with badly mauled faces, witnesses to the fanaticisn of earlier times. The anger of the reformers is transient mortal in contrast to the "eternal" brass, a suggestion that the brass represents more than mere metallic longevity. Eamon Duffy in his Stripping of the Altars says that brasses were sold in their hundredweights from onwards.
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