sonnet18诗歌赏析

1、English Poetry Appreciation - Sonnet 181. RhymeThe first 12 lines rhyme every other line and t he last two lines end rhymes are the same, which forms the rhyme-scheme of abab, cdcd, efef, gg.(Sonnet 18William Shakespeare (1564-1616)Shall I compare thee to a summer ' s day/ei/ aThou art more love

2、ly and more temperate:/eit/ bRough winds do shake the darling buds of May,/ei/ aAnd summer ' s lease hath all too short a date,/eit/ bSometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, /aiz/ c And often is his gold complexion dimed:/imd/ dAnd every fair form fair sometimes declines,/aiz/ cBy chance or

3、nature' s changing course untrim/mimd/ d ' d:But thy eternal summer shall not fade, /eid/ eNor lose possession of that fair thou ow' st: / ?st/ fNor shall death brag thou wander' st in his sh/eaid/e,es/t.?st / fWhen in eternal lines to time thou growSo long as men can breathe, or eye

4、s can see,/i?/ gSo long lives this, and this gives life to thee./i?/ g)2. MeterEach line in this sonnet is in iambic pentameter which means each line has five feet, usually an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable.For example, we can divide the first line into five independent feet as

5、 “ Shall I / compare / thee to/ a sum / mer with accen'tss day on shall, com, thee, a, mer respectively.(Sonnet 18William Shakespeare (1564-1616)Shall I/ compare/ thee to/ a sum/ mer' s dayThou art/ more love/ly and/ more tem/perate:Rough winds/ do shake/ the dar/ling buds/ of May,And sum/ m

6、er' s lea/sehath all/ too short/ a date:Sometimes/ too hot/ the eye/ of hea/ven shinesAnd of/ten is/ his gold/ complexion dimm ' d; And eve/ry fair/ form fair/ sometimes/ declines,By chance/ or na/tu re 's changi/ncgourse un/ trimm 'd;But thy/ eter/ nal sum/mer shall/ not fade,Nor lo

7、se/ posse/ssion of/ that fair/ thou ow ' st;Nor shall/ death brag/ thou wan/ der' st/ihis shade.When in/ eter/nal lines/ to time/ thou grow ' st:So long/ as men/ can breathe/, or eyes/ can see,So Iong/ lives this/, and this/ gives life/ to thee.)3. The Rhetorical DevicesSimile and Rhetor

8、ic Questi onExample: Shall I compare thee to a summer' s daySimile: Summer and you” are not similar on the surface, but virtually they are the represe ntatives of beauty.Rhetoric Questio n: It is also a rhetorical questio n, that is, formally it s' a question. Readers don't need to answe

9、r because the answer is very clear.MetaphorExample: And summer' s lease hath all too short a date:The summer s day is compared to a house, which is the thing we lend from the nature. Therefore, it ' period of use is limited, and it also in si nu ates the time that the duratio n of youth and

10、beauty is limited.Personi ficati onExample: And often is his gold complexion dimm' d;Obviously the poet compares the sun to a man, so he depicts his complexi on. (Complexi on is usually used to describe some on e.)HyperboleExample: But thy eter nal summer shall not fade,Accord ing to the laws of

11、 n ature, every beautiful thing will gradually lose their beauty, so how can the beauty of the person who the poet describes be eter nal4. ThemeIn the beg inning quatra in, the poet compares his frie nd to a beautiful summer s day in order to arouse readers' wonderful imagination. However, the p

12、oet realizes that the metaphor cant express his high praise for his friend because summer will fade away though it's beautiful. Then how to make the beauty of his friend eternal The poet fin ally thi nks of the poetry. He thi nks that with the power of the poem, he can make the beauty of his friend immortal. That is to say, the beauty of his friend is immoral in that the poetry is eternal.In a word