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SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER’S DAY

SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER’S DAY. William Shakespeare. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language

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SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER’S DAY

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  1. SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER’S DAY William Shakespeare

  2. 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, UK Died:April 23, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK Spouse: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 major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

  3. TYPE AND STRUCTURE • Lyrical poem – Shakespearian Sonnet/English Sonnet

  4. LINE 1 METAPHOR: Compares lover to the beauty of a summer’s day Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? you RHETORICAL QUESTION: The explanation to follow

  5. LINE 2 You are You are more beautiful than any summer’s day Thou art more lovely and more temperate. • Not over come with passion • Mild tempreture PUN (play on words, usually for a comic reception.)

  6. LINE 3 The start of Summer in the Northern Hemisphere PERSONIFICATION: Darling is a term used to describe a person you love/like. The flower blossoms are lovely. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, Flower blossom His lover is still young

  7. LINE 4 Summer is too short Love/passion can be over to quickly And summer's lease hath all too short a date. contract has PERSONIFICATION: Summer cannot lease any property. METAPHOR: Weather as rentable property.

  8. LINE 5 + 6 Love/passion can sometimes be too much but can also be over too quickly/fade. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; The sun Dimmed - fade The clouds move infront of the sun Love fades

  9. LINE 7 + 8 The beauty of everything beautiful will fade And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; beauty Your beauty will fade due to chance (an unpredictable event or accident) Old age PROBLEM: Everything is going to fade

  10. LINE 9 Butthy eternal summer shall not fade Volta – turn in arguement METAPHOR: Youth and beauty forever your Your beauty and youth will not fade

  11. LINE 10 + 11 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 own you METAPHOR: afterlife you Death will not claim you – you will live forever

  12. LINE 12 METAPHOR: poetry you When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st: Lover would stay beautiful as long as the poem is read

  13. LINE 13 + 14 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee 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. Rhyming couplet English/Shakespearian sonnet 14 lines Rhyming couplet you

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