A list of literature, I used for this interpretation can be found in the bibliography below.Īlong with this secondary literature the term paper is generally based on the information, provided by the power point presentation of the course Literary Studies 1 by Ao.Univ.-Prof. Nevertheless I engaged myself with some secondary literature in order to gain a broader insight into the matter of the subject. Therefore I will not go into details concerning the sonnet’s author William Shakespeare or the poem’s history of origins.

The aim of this paper is to examine sonnet 60 in matters of its external form, its discourse and story level as well as its various different interpretations in general.ĭue to the predetermined extent of this term paper I decided to focus primarily on the sonnet itself and targeted to provide an accurate description of the poem’s characteristic features, syntactic and semantic levels as well as its phonetics and how these factors influence the meaning of the sonnet. In the following term paper I am going to analyse the sonnet 60 by William Shakespeare. 4.1 Story as viewed from a discourse perspective

Shakespeare sonnet 60