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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 dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Sonnet #18 was originally published in Shake-speare's Sonnets: Never before Imprinted (1609).
Check out this video introduction to sonnets
Remember the elements of a Shakespearean Sonnet: 14 lines, iambic pentameter 3 quatrains, and a couplet interlocking rhyme scheme
Check out this beautiful version of the poem by former Pink Floyd rocker, David Gilmour
What juxtapositions, both thematic and structural, exist in this poem????
Can you find the following in the poem: metaphor, personification, oxymoron?
So, what's his point, anyway? Why are his metaphors apt?
Who is the speaker here??? What do you know about the speaker?
