![]() You’re not going to find that track on a Crosby, Stills & Nash record or Beach Boys record. We did a big Philly-type production with strings - definitely not country-rock. He could stand out there all alone and just wail. I sent for some sheet music so I could learn some of those songs, and I started creating my own musical ideas with that Philly influence. As Frey wrote in the liner notes to The Very Best Of The Eagles, “I loved all the records coming out of Philadelphia at that time. Shakespeare’s point in the concluding couplet is that even though he and his contemporaries are fortunate enough to live at the same time as the Fair Youth, rather than the poets of old who could merely look forward to the arrival of such a beautiful human, they still can’t find the words to do such beauty justice, even though they are able to behold his beauty with their own eyes.Perhaps the most left-field departure of them all was “Wasted Time,” a song where co-writers Glenn Frey and Don Henley dared to display their blue-eyed soul. In this sonnet, Shakespeare continues this blasphemous line of praise by casting the Fair Youth as a Christ-like figure, with these previous paragons of beauty being John the Baptists who prefigure the Coming of the Saviour. This poem follows hot on the heels of Sonnet 105, in which Shakespeare had offered the blasphemous view that the Fair Youth was like God. ‘Wights’ is similarly an apt word, then, in this context, since it’s a gender-neutral word. ![]() It’s also fitting that the Bard mentions both ‘ladies’ and ‘knights’ (again, calling up a bygone medieval age of chivalry), since the Fair Youth, as Sonnet 20 had shown most clearly, possessed an androgynous beauty, being delicate but also manly, with masculine as well as feminine qualities. The effects Shakespeare generates are worthy of analysis, though: ‘wights’ is an odd choice of word perhaps, to describe ‘people’, but since ‘wight’ is an archaic term for ‘person’, it’s appropriate, given that Shakespeare is talking about having his nose in old books of poems at this point. For even we poets who live now at the same time as you can admire your beauty, but we don’t have the skill to put such beauty into adequate words.’Ī straightforward poem, this, in terms of its meaning. So all of their praise of others is merely a foreshadowing of your beauty in the present time – yet although they had the wit to predict your arrival, they did not have the skill to describe you. To paraphrase the meaning of Sonnet 106: ‘When I read descriptions of beautiful people in old books, people whose beauty inspired old poems, praising women who are now dead and handsome knights, I see in such descriptions of these paragons of beauty that the authors would have gladly described your beauty. Sonnet 106 is another poem addressed to the Fair Youth, whose beauty Shakespeare praises. ![]() ![]() Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise. They had not skill enough your worth to sing:įor we, which now behold these present days, I see their antique pen would have expressedĪnd for they looked but with divining eyes, ![]() Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty’s best, In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, I see descriptions of the fairest wights, ![]()
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