莎士比亚的十四行诗18赏析

1、sonnet 18shall i compare thee to a summers day? thou art more lovely and more temperate: rough winds do shake the darling buds of may, and summers lease hath all too short a date: sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, and often is his gold complexion dimmd; and every fair from fair sometime dec

2、lines, by chance or natures changing course untrimmd; but thy eternal summer shall not fade nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; nor shall death brag thou wanderst in his shade, when in eternal lines to time thou growest: so long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, so long lives this, and t

3、his gives life to thee.there are some notes i found for some words of this sonnet, they can helps us to understand this sonnet well.1. thee: you2. thou art:you are3. hath:has4. date:period of time5. sometime:sometimes,at times,now and then6. the eye of heaven:the sun7. fair:beautiful thing or person

4、8. fair:the quality of beauty9. untrimmd:stripped(of its beauty)10. thou owst:you own11. thou wanderst:you wander12. in eternal lines to time thou growest:in the poems,you become a part of timeas we all know that shakespeare has written154 sonnets. the first 126 sonnets are apparently addressed to a

5、 handsome young man，maybe his patron. the poems express the writers selfless but not entirely uncritical devotion to the young man.the other 28 sonnets are about a young woman characterized as a dark lady ,whom the poet distrust but cannot resist. the poems addressed directly to her are perhaps the

6、most remarkable in the sequence because their unsentimental tone is unlike that of traditional love sonnets.the form of the poems is the english variation of the traditional italian， or petrarchan， sonnet. shakespeares sonnets have three quatrains， or groups of four lines and a final couplet. their

7、rhyme scheme is abab， cdcd， efef， gg. the sonnet18 is that. there is a clear demarcation between the octave and the sestet. the last two lines form a powerful ending of the whole poem.the theme of sonet18 is that a profound meditation on the destructive power of time and the eternal beauty brought f

8、orth by poetry to the one he loves. this poem used two imageries that is a summers day-youth and the eye of heaven-the sun. in the sonnet18 , shakespeare extol his young friend , images him as a summers day-youth, because the summer of england is the most comfortable, warm but not too hot. summer is good, but it is far less than the friends youth and beauty. the poet believed that his poems will exist with time. therefore, his friend will charm in hi