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http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/55detail.html

This source is a poem, more specifically, a sonnet written by Shakespeare about how one can be remembered. I chose this source because in my paper I intend to explore all aspects and phenomena of the human memory and what better way then to use one of the greatest poets who ever lived as a source. The first few lines in the sonnet talks about material things such as "marble" or "granite" but Shakespeare compares this to his "rhymes" which he believes will outlast these sturdy materials. Shakespeare is answering the question : what makes us remembered? How can we stand the test of time and reside in the memories of people long after we are gone? Shakespeare answer in sonnet 55 is to write. This is a good point because writing is a way for people to store information that can be too complicated to fit in their memory for a long time ( ex. a phone number). That being said, Shakespeare was not just any writer and his poems and lesson in his famous stories still teach us things today and it is also because of how much of a great intellectual and writer he was that we remember him today. The next few lines in the sonnet 55 describe just how powerful writing can be. Shakespeare claims that death ,"Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn/ the living record of your memory" and it is clearly true since his writings are still loved today, hundreds of years later.

Shakespeare, William. "Analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 55." //Analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 55 //. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 June 2014.