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SHALL I COMPARE THEE

SHALL I COMPARE THEE. « 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,

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SHALL I COMPARE THEE

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  1. SHALL I COMPARE THEE « 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 owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow rest. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee.»

  2. «Shall I compare thee» is the SONNET XVIII of William Shakespeare collection. This sonnetwas for a man, but Shakespeare didn’twritehisname, he called him «fair youth». The sonnetwasdividedintothreequatrains and a final couplet

  3. THE RHYME SCHEME « Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? A Thou art more lovely and more temperate. B Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, A And summer's lease hath all too short a date: B Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, C And often is his gold complexion dimmed, D And every fair from fair sometime declines, C By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed; D But thy eternal summer shall not fade, E Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; F Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade, E When in eternal lines to time thou grow rest. F So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, G So long lives this and this gives life to thee.» G

  4. THE FIRST QUATRAIN In the second line wefind a comparison between the beloved and a summer day. At the end he says that the lover is more lovely and more temperate In the first line we can find a rhetoricalquestionthatcreates an immediate emotional involvement « 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: We find opposition between words belonging to the semantic field of summer and words that relate to the decline

  5. THE SECOND QUATRAIN This is a metaphor , it is the sun We have a reference with the Elizabethan age 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; In the verse 7 we have a reflection on the destructive power of time

  6. THE THIRD QUARTAIN 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 grow rest. In the verses 10-11-12 he says that thanks to the poem, the beauty of the beloved will be preserved forever

  7. THE FINAL COUPLET Longemphasize the duration of the time So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee. In the verse 14 wefind a «chiasmo». This verse summarises the sense of allpoetry

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