and, do you think that if you know the poet personally, your idea of the poem changes? i think yes. sorry but i don't remember which lyfe was when i knew shakespeare, or even if i knew him at all...
"But if the while I think on thee dear friend"
"All losses are restored, and sorrows end"
if i knew him, i hope i would feel the same about his sonnet 30.
so... any poets? i don't know any of you, so i wouldn't feel...