Please give me an appreciation of Shakespeare’s sonnet18 (must include figures of speech) 10~

Sonnet 18

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. 4

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd; 8

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,

< p>When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st. 12

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee .

Maybe I compare you to summer?

You are more lovely and gentle than summer:

The strong wind will blow the May buds to the ground,< /p>

Summer is too short and passes by in a hurry; 4

Sometimes the sun shines too hot,

often obscures his golden face;

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Beautiful things will inevitably fade,

accidentally, or due to natural changes. 8

But your eternal summer will not fade,

You will not lose your handsome appearance;

Death cannot boast that you walk in his shadow,

If you gain in this immortal verse 12

As long as people can breathe and their eyes can see,

this poem will be immortal and enable you to live forever.

Notes: < /p>

1. a summer's day On the surface, this is "a day in summer", but according to line 4, it is inappropriate to understand it as "a day in summer". The correct understanding should be "the season of summer".< /p>

day a period of time.

2. temperate mild, neither cold nor hot.

3. Rough (wind or weather) stormy, Violent, violent.

darling adjective, beloved, dear.

4. lease (specified in the contract) period.

date continuous a period of time, a season.

5. sometimes sometimes, sometimes.

hot adverb.

the eye of heaven refers to the sun.

< p>6. his its, refers to the sun.

complexion face, face.

dim verb, to make it dim.

7. of this line The normal word order is And every fair sometime declines from fair.

fair The first fair means "beautiful person or beautiful thing"; the second fair means "beautiful".

sometime at a specific time, at a certain time.

decline decline, decline.

8. The normal word order of this line is untrimmed by chance or nature's changing course, A past participle phrase with untrimmed as the head word, modifying the second fair in line 7.

nature's changing couse is the changing law of nature.

untrim takes away beauty.

Nature's changing couse. p>

9. fade decline, decline.

10. lose possession of lose possession of.

fair is the same as the second fair in line 7.< /p>

owe own, possess.

12. line line of poetry.

14. this The two occurrences of this in this line both refer to "this poem".

Appreciation

Most Shakespeare scholars believe that sonnets from 18th to 20th are the author praising the extraordinary beauty of his friends.

At the beginning of this poem, summer, May buds and the sun are used, the most beautiful things in time and space, to compare with friends, thinking that they all have certain limitations and are not as good as friends. From the general aspect, compare In comparison, friends are more lovely and gentle than summer; specifically, summer flowers-the buds in May are easily blown off by strong winds, and the summer sun is too hot and often obscured. In the comparison, it points out all the beautiful things Things, with the passage of time and natural changes, will inevitably wither. Although you are better than flowers and the summer sun, your handsome appearance is still in danger of disappearing. What should I do? Poetry is eternal, and I can only write about you. Only by entering my poems can you gain eternal life in this immortal art. Your handsome appearance will not be lost, and your eternal summer will not fade. As long as people can breathe and feel, they will learn from the poems. Appreciating your beauty, even the god of death cannot boast that you are walking in his shadow.

This poem is good at making comparisons, and the structure is rigorous and multi-layered. It starts with Xia and her friend. Bi, and then from the limitations of Xia Hua and Xia Yang, bring out the beauty of friends. This work of creation will also change and flow with nature; only poetry is immortal, and you can only gain eternal life in poetry.

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