William Shakespeare.

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Time is one of the main themes in the Shakespeare’s production. Find other examples among the texts you have read and write down an essay of 300 words.

In the Renaissance the human figure was revaluted: the body wasn’t seen as the soul’s prison (like in the middle age) but it was a means of pleasure; that anchored it to life.
One of the most important Renaissance’s exponent was the poet William Shakespeare.
Among his sonnets, what is more useful to explain his conception of time is the sonnet XVIII.
In that Shakespeare explain the quick movement of the time: it is destructive about the material things, in particullary for the body and its beauty.
In fact he said “…Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and the summer’s lease hath all too short a date…”
The darling buds represent the flower of the Youth and the beauty of the life; meanwhile the winds despict the passage of the days are rough and with its strenght shake, ruin and pull down.
But there is a way to escape from the destructive fate: the poetry, it is immortality.
“Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade”: the death can’t hide this young man because the his beauty continue to live in this words.
We can relish his beauty casue Shakespeare have incised it in a piace of paper and now we can read it, so we give life to the young in our imagination.
Then “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives live to thee”: practicability, till the men can live or can read and understand this word live.