Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May‚ And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines‚ And often is his gold complexion dimmed‚ And every fair from fair sometime declines‚ By chance‚ or nature’s changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade‚ Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st‚ Nor shall death brag thou wander’st
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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May‚ And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines‚ And often is his gold complexion dimmed‚ And every fair from fair sometime declines‚ By chance‚ or nature’s changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade‚ Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st‚ Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade‚ When
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Literary Analysis Shall I Compare Thee to Summers Day? In analyzing Sonnet 18‚ Shall I Compare Thee to Summers Day?‚ written by William Shakespeare it is important to know some of the background information on this poet and playwright. He wrote a hundred and fifty four sonnets‚ that cover three major themes: 1. how short every life is‚ 2. that beauty will always fade because it is not everlasting‚ and 3. the weaknesses of humans to give into earthy temptations. Most scholars refer to the
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Shall I Compare Thee To a Summer’s Day? William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May‚ And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines‚ And oft’ is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines‚ By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d: But
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| Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day | William Shakespeare | | | Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day by William Shakespeare is a poem that compares a young men’s beauty with the magnificence and excitement of summer time. In the first quatrain‚ Shakespeare attempts to find something that compares to the beauty of the young man. Using metaphors‚ he compares the young man to a summer’s day‚ but realizes that the young man is both more beautiful and more amusing than summer. The
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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Shall I compare you to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: You are more lovely and more constant: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May‚ Rough winds shake the beloved buds of May And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: And summer is far too short: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines‚ At times the sun is too hot‚ And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; Or often goes behind the clouds; And every fair from fair sometime
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In the sonnet ’Shall I compare Thee To A Summers Day’ The poet William Shakespeare uses countless types of imagery but the question is which types can be interpreted as beautiful and which part would be interpreted as anything but beautiful. ’Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate’ Shakespeare starts this sonnet with a rhetorical question which he answers in the second line. In these two lines Shakespeare establishes his feelings for the woman that he loves
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In sharp contrast‚ sonnet 130 and 147 use dark diction to express the dark lady. In sonnet 130 the speaker uses comparison / “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;” to begin the sonnet to express the almost demonic mysterious appearance of the lady. Another comparison is the dark lady to a “goddess” and how a goddess does not walk‚ but rather floats‚ but the speaker’s lady “treads on the ground” (pp550). The speaker shows how his dark lady is far from perfect and may lack many of the qualities
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My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun William Shakespeare My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red: If snow be white‚ why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires‚ black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask’d‚ red and white‚ But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak‚--yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing
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Eye of the Beholder Shakespeare’s‚ “My Mistress’ Eyes are nothing like the Sun”‚ is a sonnet that contains fourteen lines. Each line possessing ten syllables and the meter of the sonnet is Iambic pentameter. In these fourteen lines Shakespeare beings to describe the beauty of his mistress and shows how she is still yet a human being with flaws. Shakespeare’s sonnet‚ “My Mistress’ Eyes are nothing like the Sun”‚ can be broken into four pieces‚ three quatrains and a couplet. This sonnet by Shakespeare
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