Sonnet 18's Analysis

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Name : Okky Setyorini NIM : 11.11.106.101301.0732 Lecturer : Jepri Nainggolan, A.Md, S.S Subject : English Poetry I 5th semester Faculty of Letters SONNET 18 – WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm’d; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st 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 this gives life to thee. PARAPHRASE OF SONNET 18 Shall I compare you to a summer's day? You are more beautiful and more evenly-tempered Rough winds shake the beloved buds of May And summer is far too short: At times the sun is too hot, Or often goes behind the clouds; And everything beautiful sometime will lose its beauty, By misfortune or by nature's planned out course. But your youth shall not fade, Nor will you lose the beauty that you possess; Nor will death claim you for his own, Because in my eternal verse you will live forever So long as there are people on this earth, So long will this poem live on, making you immortal. MID-TERM TEST: POETRY ANALYSIS Poetry analysi Poetry Analysis a. Theme: LOVE This sonnet is about temporality, about physical beauty and love. It stresses that the loved one will live forever through the words of the poem. Most people believe the sonnet was written by a man to a man, although probably not as a gesture of sexual attraction. Homosexuality was frowned on in those days. Others think it is
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