 | Herbert Blau - 1999 - 336 Seiten
...piece some time ago, called Crooked Eclipses, a kind of visual fugue on the theme of its opening line: "What is your substance, whereof are you made,/ That millions of strange shadows on you tend?"1" At the extremity of this question there is potentially a double anguish, the anguish of a... | |
 | Michal Kobialka - 1999 - 360 Seiten
...piece some time ago, called Crooked Eclipses, a kind of visual fugue on the theme of its opening line: "What is your substance, whereof are you made, / That millions of strange shadows on you tend?"5 At the extremity of this question there is potentially a double anguish, the anguish of a scrutiny... | |
 | Michael Bronzite - 2000 - 268 Seiten
...Bibliography 233 Documents 237 Index 1 Case histories 239 Index 2 General topics 241 Parti Setting the scene What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Sonnet 53, Shakespeare Chapter 1 Introduction Between $81 billion and $140 billion per year is wasted... | |
 | Richard Jacobs - 2001 - 504 Seiten
...narcissistically. In Sonnet 53 the speaker, in wonder but also in some exasperation, asks the boy, 'what is your substance, whereof are you made, / That millions of strange shadows on you tend?' The notion seems to be that the loved-object can only be a series of endlessly self-generated reflections... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 212 Seiten
...chest 12 new newly; his its (the time's, 1. 9) 53 1 What is your substance, whereof are you made, 2 That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since every one hath, every one, one shade, 4 And you, but one, can every shadow lend. 5 Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated... | |
 | Astrid Fitzgerald - 2001 - 390 Seiten
...(from one another or from the Selfl. This is what the knowers of Truth understand. — Mandukya Karika What is your substance, whereof are you made, That...Grecian tires are painted new: Speak of the spring and foison of the year, The one doth shadow of your beauty show, The other as your bounty doth appear;... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 240 Seiten
...Barnes in no way advances on Ovid, in no way strives to outdo him. But consider Shakespeare's Sonnet 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made, That...Grecian tires are painted new. Speak of the spring and foison of the year: The one doth shadow of your beauty show, The other as your bounty doth appear;... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 256 Seiten
...living, in the Fair Youth; he is all of them (31). We have known him as the pattern of all things lovely: What is your substance, whereof are you made, That...one shade, And you, but one, can every shadow lend. (53) Other beauteous forms are aspects of him : he is within Adonis and Helen, in Grecian 'tires';... | |
 | Nicholas Humphrey - 2002 - 388 Seiten
...us to be clever too. In the very first phrases he hints at a more subtle interpretation of the poem. 'What is your substance, whereof are you made, / that millions of strange shadows on you tend?' Substance and shadow. The reference is to a famous parable by Plato, the story of 'The Cave'. Imagine,... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 Seiten
...(11) The shadow of your sorrow hath destroyed The shadow of your face. [Richard II, IV.i.292-93] (12) What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? [Sonnet 53, 11. 1-2] (13) For since the substance of your perfect self Is else devoted, I am but a... | |
| |
What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend ? Since every one hath, every one, one shade, And you, but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you ; On Helen's... 
