In sonnets 14 and 15 the poet discusses his subject’s beauty and how it is at the mercy of Time. The poet ends s. 15 by proclaiming to preserve that beauty through verse. This relates to Plato during Diotima’s discussion with Socrates when she proclaims that man is full of wisdom/beauty that is birthed as art. Taking this into consideration, do you think that the poet does well in preserving his subject’s beauty or is the reader more inclined to focus on the poet himself and his art?
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