In the sonnet, the speaker asks whether he should compare the Fair Youth to a summer's day, but notes that he has qualities that surpass a summer's day, which is one of the themes of the poem. He also notes the qualities of a summer day are subject to change and will evtually diminish. The speaker th states that the Fair Youth will live forever in the lines of the poem, as long as it can be read.
There is an irony being expressed in this sonnet: it is not the actual young man who will be eternalized, but the description of him contained in the poem, and the poem contains scant or no description of the young man, but instead contains vivid and lasting descriptions of a summer day, which the young man is supposed to outlive.
Sonnet 18 is a typical glish or Shakespearean sonnet, having 14 lines of iambic ptameter: three quatrains followed by a couplet. It also has the characteristic rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. The poem reflects the rhetorical tradition of an Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet. Petrarchan sonnets typically discussed the love and beauty of a beloved, oft an unattainable love, but not always.
Shall I Compare Thee
The poem is part of the Fair Youth sequce (which comprises sonnets 1–126 in the accepted numbering stemming from the first edition in 1609). It is also the first of the cycle after the oping sequce now described as the procreation sonnets. Some scholars, however, contd that it is part of the procreation sonnets, as it addresses the idea of reaching eternal life through the writt word, a theme they find in sonnets 15–17. In this view, it can be se as part of a transition to sonnet 20's time theme.
In Shakespeare's time complexion carried both outward and inward meanings, as did the word temperate (externally, a weather condition; internally, a balance of humours). The second meaning of complexion would communicate that the beloved's inner, cheerful, and temperate disposition is constant, unlike the sun, which may be blotted out on a cloudy day. The first meaning is more obvious: a negative change in his outward appearance.
The word, untrimmed in line eight, can be tak two ways: First, in the sse of loss of decoration and frills, and second, in the sse of untrimmed sails on a ship. In the first interpretation, the poem reads that beautiful things naturally lose their fanciness over time. In the second, it reads that nature is a ship with sails not adjusted to wind changes in order to correct course. This, in combination with the words nature's changing course, creates an oxymoron: the unchanging change of nature, or the fact that the only thing that does not change is change. This line in the poem creates a shift from the mutability of the first eight lines, into the eternity of the last six. Both change and eternity are th acknowledged and challged by the final line.
Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? (sonnet 18)
Ow'st in line t can carry two meanings, each common at the time: ownest and owest. Owe, in Shakespeare's day, was sometimes used as a synonym for own. However, owest conveys the idea that beauty is something borrowed from nature—that it must be paid back. In this interpretation, fair can be a pun on fare, or the fare required by nature for life's journey.
Other scholars have pointed out that this borrowing and lding theme within the poem is true of both nature and humanity. Summer, for example, is said to have a lease with all too short a date. This monetary theme is common in many of Shakespeare's sonnets, as it was an everyday theme in his budding capitalistic society.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.
Presentation on theme: 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.— Presentation transcript:
Sonnet 18 By William Shakespeare: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?
1 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: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And ever 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 in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
16 Group One Using # 18 as a model, determine the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean or English sonnet A= First rhyme B= Second rhyme, etc. Also label any inside line rhymes
17 Group Two Using # 18 as a model, determine the number of lines and the overall structure of a Shakespearean sonnet Couplet = 2 lines Quatrain = 4 lines Tercet = 3 lines Octave = 8 lines Sestet = 6 lines
What Is Sonnet 18 All About?
18 Group Three Using # 18 as a model, determine the meter of a line of a Shakespearean sonnet Iamb = unaccented followed by accented Meters are – 1 = monometer – 2 = dimeter – 3 = trimeter – 4 = tetrameter – 5 = pentameter
19 Group Four Using # 18 as a model, determine the subject of a Shakespearean sonnet. What themes are discussed? – Art – Beauty – Love – Life – Death, etc.
20 Write a sonnet Write an English sonnet about a frog and a princess – Rhyme Scheme= abab, cdcd, efef, gg – Structure= 3 quatrains and a couplet – Meter= iambic pentameter – Subject= love, time, death, unrequited love
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21 Is this an English sonnet? Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife. The fearful passage of their death-marked lvoe, And the continuance of their parents’ rage, Which, but their children’s end naught could remove, Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage; The which if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
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