Shakespeare, William : My love is as a fever, longing still

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Literature Annotations

	On-Line Text
Genre	Sonnet
Keywords	Love, Mental Illness, Obsession, Sexuality, Suffering
Summary	The unrequited love of the narrator is compared to a devastating fever. Reason, "the physician," is ignored and cannot abate the disease. Without reason, madness (fever) reigns; and the poet renounces his beloved as "black as hell, as dark as night."
Source	The Histories and Poems of Shakespeare
Publisher	Random House
Edition	V. 2, Modern Library
Place Published	New York
Annotated by	Chen, Irene and Aull, Felice
Date of Entry	08/01/93
Last Revised	09/01/06