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						 			      	Sonnet 97: How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been - NoSweatShakespeare						 			      	
							                
							                	How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December’s bareness everywhere! https://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/sonnets/97/
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						 			      	Shakespeare Sonnet 97: "How Like a Winter Hath My Absence Been" - LetterPile						 			      	
							                
							                	In sonnet 97, the speaker addresses his Muse, likening her absence to the bleakness of winter, yet finding renewal as winter ministers to the renewal of spring. https://letterpile.com/poetry/Shakespeare-Sonnet-97-How-like-a-winter-hath-my-absence-been
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						 			      	Analysis of Sonnet 97: ‘How Like a Winter Hath My Absence Been’						 			      	
							                
							                	A commentary on Shakespeare’s 97th sonnet Sonnet 97 has a famous opening line, but the rest of the poem remains less famous. Yet the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Don Paterson have both expressed admiration for it, so the sonnet is worth closer analysis and explication. https://interestingliterature.com/2017/11/13/a-short-analysis-of-shakespeares-sonnet-97-how-like-a-winter-hath-my-absence-been/
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						 			      	How Like a Winter Hath My Absence Been (Sonnet 97) - Poets						 			      	
							                
							                	William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616. https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/how-winter-hath-my-absence-been-sonnet-97
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						 			      	Sonnet XCVII - Shakespeare's Sonnets						 			      	
							                
							                	How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December's bareness everywhere! http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/sonnet/97
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						 			      	Shakespeare Sonnet 97 - How Like a Winter Hath My Absence Been						 			      	
							                
							                	Analysis of Shakespeare's sonnet 97 with critical notes. Start of a new theme on absence. http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/97.html
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						 			      	SparkNotes: Sonnet 97 - SparkNotes						 			      	
							                
							                	A summary of Sonnet 97 in William Shakespeare's Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Shakespeare’s Sonnets and what it means. http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/shakesonnets/section6.rhtml
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						 			      	Sonnet 97: How Like a Winter Hath My Absence Been - Poetry Foundation						 			      	
							                
							                	How like a winter hath my absence been. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45101/sonnet-97-how-like-a-winter-hath-my-absence-been
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						 			      	Sonnet 97 - CliffsNotes						 			      	
							                
							                	Summary: The poet begins a new sequence of sonnets, written in his absence from the youth during the summer and autumn months. https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/s/shakespeares-sonnets/summary-and-analysis/sonnet-97
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						 			      	Sonnet 97 - Wikipedia						 			      	
							                
							                	Sonnet 97 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_97