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By William Shakespeare. No longer mourn for me when I am dead. Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell. Give warning to the world that I am fled. From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell; Nay, if you read this line, remember not. The hand that writ it; for I love you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,
On its own, "Sonnet 71" functions as a love poem in which the speaker urges the lover not to spend too much time in mourning after the speaker dies. Some readers believe that this selfless sentiment isn't genuine and that the speaker actually wants the lover to never move on from their relationship!
Read Shakespeare's sonnet 71 with a version in modern English: "No longer mourn for me when I am dead, Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell.
‘Sonnet 71’ by William Shakespeare is a single stanza poem that contains fourteen lines the traditional number for a sonnet. It is also structured in a form that has become synonymous with the poet’s name.
Sonnet 71 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. It focuses on the speaker's aging and impending death in relation to his young lover.
SONNET 71. No longer mourn for me when I am dead. Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell. Give warning to the world that I am fled. From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell: Nay, if you read this line, remember not. The hand that writ it; for I love you so.
71. Synopsis: In this first of a series of four sonnets in which the poet addresses his own death and its effect on the beloved, he here urges the beloved to forget him once he is gone. No longer mourn for me when I am dead. Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell. Give warning to the world that I am fled.