These themes highlighted are relevant to any society, civilization or era - and that's the beauty of Shakespearean literature. ... Immortality Shakespeare, like many sonneteers, portrays time as an enemy of love. ... Time passes. ... The speaker of Sonnet 18 is absolutely fixated on fate and mortality, but believes he's come up with an effective time machine: poetry. ... Man, in the natural world, can't avoid being subject to time, but it is through literature, through this very poem, that he can free himself. ...

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