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Why does the speaker in Sonnet 18 by Petrarch repeatedly use negative words and phrases ?

A) The poem is about his inability to spend time with his beloved.
B) The poem is about his inability to capture his beloved's beauty in verse.
C) The poem is about his inability to understand what others see in his beloved.
D) The poem is about his inability to accept that his beloved has died.

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ik i am probly late on this but your answer was b

sorry i took so long lol

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The important idea about his beloved that the speaker in "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes" conveys is that "B. The love of his beloved will be remembered longer than a beautiful day" since he references both.

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