Shakespeare's Love Poetry - Analysis of Sonnets 18 (I should compare you?)

Sonnet 18 analysis: the first quarter

Sonnet 18 is Shakespeare's most famous love poem. In the story of Shakespeare's sonnet, the protagonist conveyed this message to a fair young man and shared a special love with him. For many years it has been argued that love is Platonic or sexual, but the romance and love nature of this sonnet cannot be debated. The author first asks, I can compare you with the summer, and compare the beauty, youth and vitality of a fair young man with the summer. The author also said that fair young people are more lovely and gentler than summer - it may be said that fair young people are calmer, kind and gentle.

But the last two lines of this quarter say that summer is too short to start questioning fair young people who are always good looking.

Second quatrain

In this quartile, negative thoughts and concerns begin to fill the writer's mind. He began to continue his thoughts, and the summer continued to be short. When he talks about the summer being too hot, you can feel a rather melancholy and skeptical mood, while at other times it is too cold - the extremes of summer. So even if a fair young person is very cute, sometimes a fair young person will be angry, and he may be very demanding. Then he began to question nature, "...every fair fairness sometimes falls" - even fair and beautiful things. Fair young people will lose their beautiful "natural change process."

Third quatrain

However, as he firmly said, "Your eternal summer will not disappear." A new vigilance seems to have replaced the writer at the beginning of this four-line poem. He said that the beauty and vitality of fair young people will not fade. He said that you will not lose your youth, nor will you lose the beauty you have, and death will not let you lose yourself. The author can say that the beauty of the fair young people will not fade, these poetic words must have an element, and the author also uses the phrase "eternal lines" to say that this fair young man and #39 use this first fourteen In the words of poetry, beauty is eternal life.

Final rhyming couplet

The final rhyming coup of any Shakespeare sonnet has reinforced the writer's previous assertions. As long as someone on earth reads these words, there will be a fair youth spirit and beauty in this poem.

This is Shakespeare's love poem, sonnet 18. I even divided the poem into quatrains.

First quatrain

Can I compare you to summer?

You are more lovely and gentler;

The wind swayed the baby of May,

And the date of the summer is too short;

Second quatrain

Sometimes the eyes of heaven are too hot,

And often his golden complexion dimm&d ;;

Every time there is a time when the exhibition will fall,

Occasionally or naturally changed the irrationality of the course.

Third quatrain

But your eternal summer won't fade,

Nor will you lose the kind of fairness you have;

Death is boasting that you will not be jealous in his shadow.

When growing on an eternal timeline:

Final rhyming couplet

As long as the man can breathe or see the eyes,

This long life, this gives you life.

If you want to know more about Shakespeare's love poems, or about romance and Shakespeare, check out some of my other posts in Shakespeare's love poems.

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