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SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER’S DAY
William Shakespeare
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".
Born: April 26, 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, UKDied: April 23, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon, UKSpouse: Anne Hathaway(m. 1582–1616)
His work: 38 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems and a few other verses, the authorship. His plays have been translated into every majorliving language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
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TYPE AND STRUCTURE
• Lyrical poem – Shakespearian Sonnet/English Sonnet
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LINE 1
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
you
METAPHOR:Compares lover to the beauty of a summer’s day
RHETORICAL QUESTION:The explanation to follow
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LINE 2
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
You are You are more beautiful than any summer’s day
•Not over come with passion•Mild tempreture
PUN (play on words, usually for a comic reception.)
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LINE 3
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
PERSONIFICATION:Darling is a term used to describe a person you love/like. The flower blossoms are lovely.
The start of Summer in the Northern Hemisphere
Flower blossom
His lover is still young
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LINE 4
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.hascontract
PERSONIFICATION:Summer cannot lease any property.
METAPHOR:Weather as rentable property.
Summer is too shortLove/passion can be over to quickly
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LINE 5 + 6
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
The sun
Love/passion can sometimes be too much but can also be over too quickly/fade.
Dimmed - fade
The clouds move infront of the sunLove fades
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And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
beauty
The beauty of everything beautiful will fade
1. Your beauty will fade due to chance (an unpredictable event or accident)
2. Old age
PROBLEM:Everything is going to fade
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But thy eternal summer shall not fade
your
Your beauty and youth will not fade
METAPHOR:Youth and beauty
forever
Volta – turn in arguement
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Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade
You will not lose the beauty you already have
you
own
Death will not claim you – you will live forever
METAPHOR:afterlife you
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LINE 12
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
METAPHOR:poetry you
Lover would stay beautiful as long as the poem is read
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So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee
Rhyming couplet
English/Shakespearian sonnet1. 14 lines2. Rhyming couplet
you
As long as there are people on earth that can see and read, so long you will live in the lines of this poem – making you immortal.