Defeating Death by Creation:the Concept of Death in Shakespeare's Sonnets
"Defeating death by creation"is a significant theme in Shakespeare's sonnets.In this group of poems,there are two ways of creation:the first is the reproduction of human beings,and the second is artistic creation.By distilling"fair,kind and true"from the chaos of reality,the poet establishes order,and thus creates his microcosm in poems.The Old Testament also lays emphasis on the notion of defeating death by reproduction.This concept of"defeating death by creation"in Shakespeare's poems has a clear inheritance from the concept of death in the Old Testament,which originates from the Hebrew culture and changes under the influence of ancient Greco-Roman philosophical thought.By analyzing the concept of death in Shakespeare's sonnets,we can see the clash and convergence of the two ancient civilizations during the Renaissance.