Poectic Analsis on Sonnet 18 Shakespeare
Appendix
Sonnet 18
Shakespeare
1 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
2 Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
3 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
4 And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
5 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
6 And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
7 And every fair from fair sometime declines,
8 By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
9 But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
10 Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest,
11 Nor shall death brag thou wanderest in his shade,
12 When in eternal lines to time thou growest,
13 So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
14 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Introduction
Stylistic analysis involves examining the linguistic structure of a text and show the role which the linguistic structure plays in helping a reader to arrive at an interpretation of that text. According to American professor Stanley Fish, Stylistics aims to give an objective account of how language is used in literature (p.4, Niazi, Nozar, 2010, How To Study Literature: Stylistic And Pragmatic Approaches)
In this article, I conduct a stylistic analysis on a poem, ‘Sonnet 18’, which was written by Shakespeare. The analysis would be focus on the writer’s use of sound and rhythm to convey and/ or complete meaning. A general evaluation regarding to its literary value will also be discussed.
Overall interpretation
The poem carries the meaning of an Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet. Petrarchan sonnets typically discussed the love and beauty of a beloved. In the sonnet, it talks about how the beloved differs from the summer; summer is fleeting; but beloved’s beauty will last forever (‘Thy eternal summer shall not fade… ’) and never die. Because it is preserved in the poem, which will last forever; it will live as ‘long as men can breathe or eyes can see’.
Shakespeare uses some phonetic scheme as well as some linguistic structure to help readers to arrive at
Sonnet 18
Shakespeare
1 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
2 Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
3 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
4 And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
5 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
6 And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
7 And every fair from fair sometime declines,
8 By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
9 But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
10 Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest,
11 Nor shall death brag thou wanderest in his shade,
12 When in eternal lines to time thou growest,
13 So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
14 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Introduction
Stylistic analysis involves examining the linguistic structure of a text and show the role which the linguistic structure plays in helping a reader to arrive at an interpretation of that text. According to American professor Stanley Fish, Stylistics aims to give an objective account of how language is used in literature (p.4, Niazi, Nozar, 2010, How To Study Literature: Stylistic And Pragmatic Approaches)
In this article, I conduct a stylistic analysis on a poem, ‘Sonnet 18’, which was written by Shakespeare. The analysis would be focus on the writer’s use of sound and rhythm to convey and/ or complete meaning. A general evaluation regarding to its literary value will also be discussed.
Overall interpretation
The poem carries the meaning of an Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet. Petrarchan sonnets typically discussed the love and beauty of a beloved. In the sonnet, it talks about how the beloved differs from the summer; summer is fleeting; but beloved’s beauty will last forever (‘Thy eternal summer shall not fade… ’) and never die. Because it is preserved in the poem, which will last forever; it will live as ‘long as men can breathe or eyes can see’.
Shakespeare uses some phonetic scheme as well as some linguistic structure to help readers to arrive at