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Shakespeare uses the narrator to report some of the characters’ speeches before beginning their direct discourse, so that they never speak entirely for themselves. He also acts in other ways as a transition between the characters and the reader: he comments on the characters’ speeches and describes the characters, thereby influencing the reader’s interpretation by his own. Once again, the danger is 36 Shakespeare to subsume in this section the three parts of this analysis of Lucrece, but to do so is to gain the apparent simultaneous effect of the poem on the reader while losing definition and an understanding of the relation of parts to whole.

By saying what Tarquin’s face is not yet, the narrator cannot let it be entirely without storm or free from associations with darkness and prison. He also shows that Tarquin cannot control his intentions and pretense. 12 The narrator represents Tarquin as being as restless as thieves, cares, and troubled minds. Will’s narrator, though less obviously than in sonnets 135 and 136, may be punning on his name Will and thus be speaking about authorial will, or sexual desire and volition, as much as Tarquin’s struggle with his will.

Venus uses one of the arguments that the narrator in the sonnets does to persuade the young man to marry—“Thou wast begot; to get it is duty”—and also argues that he will achieve immortality through children (168–75). This is unusual rhetoric for a seduction. Nature is personified: Titan lusts after Venus even as Adonis dismisses love (181–86). The elaborate argument builds up narrative pressure, relying on the frustration of the seduction and of the reader to get to the end of the story. Natural description reveals a tension between reflecting the world and supplementing it.

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