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What does 'The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Poetry' say about the darkness of the poems? |
'These poems about the irrational and uncontrollable aspects of desire articulate a pronounced fear that humans are little more than a composite of appetites they can barely control.' |
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What does 'The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Poetry' say about blackness? |
'While in some poems it may entail just the complexion and hair of the beloved, in other poems blackness seem to be a judgement as much ethical as cosmetic.' |
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What is the effect of placing the dark lady poems next to the young man poems? |
'By juxtaposing poems to a dark lady with poems to a young man, Shakespeare asks what happens to the terminology of love and desire when its object changes radically.' ('The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Poetry') |
