Analysis of Poems English Literature
English Major 132
Rebecca
1. Sonnet 18
----William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
(Could I compare you to the time of summer?)
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
(You are more lovely and more gentle and mild than the days)
(Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
(The wild winds shakes the favorite flowers of May. )
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
(And the duration of summer has a limited period of time)
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
(Sometimes the sun shining is too hot. )
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
(Or often goes behind the clouds.)
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
(And everything beautiful will lose its beauty.)
By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed;
(By
misfortune or by nature鈥檚 planned out course)
But thy eternal summer shall not fade ,
(But your youth shall not fade)
Nor lose
possession of that fair thou ow鈥?/p>
st;
(Nor will you lose the beauty that you possessed)
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'rest in his shade,
(Nor will death claim you for his own)
When in
eternal lines to time thou grow鈥?/p>
st
(Because in my eternal verse you will live forever)
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
(So long as the men can live in the world with sight and breath)
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.