...— "So long lives this, and this gives life to thee" (18.14)7 — and a revised rhetorical purpose: "A woman's face, with Nature's own hand painted, /...With shifting change, as is false women's fashion" (20.1-4). Has Shakespeare somehow learned that the woman he was trying to persuade the young man to...

...— "So long lives this, and this gives life to thee" (18.14)7 — and a revised rhetorical purpose: "A woman's face, with Nature's own hand painted, /...A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted / With shining change, as is false women's fashion" (20.1-4). Has Shakespeare somehow learned that the woman...

...manual ministrations. It was after this little incident that he wrote sonnet 20, the one that begins A woman's face with nature's own hand painted Hast thou, the Master-Mistress of my passion . . . In it, he goes on to say that I was first created to be a woman, till nature fell a-doting over...

...SONNETS SONNET 20 A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted Has thon, the maste?-mistress of?ny passion; A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted...false in rolling, Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;^ 18. In a rare fashion, exceptionally. A man in hue, 20 all hues in his controling, 2 ^ Which...

...woman's face with Nature's own hand painted Has thott, the master-mistress of my passion; A woman 's gentle heart, but not acquainted With shifting change,...false in rolling, Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;^ 18. In a rare fashion, exceptionally. A man in hue,20 all hues in his controling,21 Which...

...radically unstable about the way the sonnets present the relationship between Shakespeare and the youth. 20 A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted Hast...false in rolling, Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth, A man in hue, all hues in his controlling, Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth....

...development. And nowhere is Shakespeare more challenging than in the poem which follows the procreation group: A woman's face with nature's own hand painted Hast...false in rolling, Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth; A man in hue, all hues in his controlling, Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth....

...pattern ideal model 20 1 A woman's face, with Nature's own hand painted, 2 Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion; A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted...With shifting change, as is false women's fashion; 5 An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling, 6 Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;...

...bevel," but also sonnet 20, notoriously concerned with the natural artifice of the young man's beauty: "A woman's face, with nature's own hand painted, / Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion." 5 To treat the sexual overtones of this sonnet as codes is to read it as a poem whose oblique message...

...the poet's own name. 42 In sonnet 20, the poet's repressed bisexual desire comes out into the open: "A woman's face with nature's own hand painted / Hast Thou, the master-mistress of my passion" (20.1-2). Not only does the poet tie his own name to the presence of bisexuality but he also turns...