A Close Reading Of Sonnet 18

Throughout the four seasons people would mostly say that summer is there favorite season. Why do people tend to enjoy summer so much? Could it be that during the summer the weather gets hot during the day and warm at night? Could it be that you can venture off to different places like the beach with your family and friends or sticking your toes in the water or sand? Whatever the case may be the summer time seems to be the season to have fun, laugh, and relax. In the Backpack Literature textbook on chapter 14, it focuses on figures of speech. Figures of speech is a big part of literature that people need to learn. How is figures of speech very important to our everyday use? I feel like in literature it is important for people to understand the meanings that the authors and also yourself are expressing in a story, poem, speech, and many more literary contexts. Dealing with figurative language you are going to see examples like metaphors, similes, oxymoron’s, personifications, and so much that refer in a context. In this particular poem that I will be discussing about has metaphors and similes. The poem, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day by Howard Moss. There is always other version on this poem by William Shakespeare that was a sonnet but I feel like Howard Moss wanted to put he own spin-off of the Shakespeare’s poem. In Howard Moss poem, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day, he express how much the person he admires mean to him with metaphors and similes. Howard Moss

This is why Shakespeare chose wisely and made Sonnet 18 as cheerful and lighthearted as possible. The speaker starts off by asking, “ Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”. He then goes on to list the reasons why summer isn’t as great as it seems. It says that the flower buds of May have all been blown off the trees, and summer goes away too quickly. The speaker then explains that this person is, “....more lovely, and more temperate:” than a summer day. It goes on to describe that all love will eventually fade, but his love is an exception. This person will never lose their pleasant qualities and death will never separate him from his true love. The speaker concludes that as long as humans are still living and breathing, the emotions and thoughts described in the sonnet will still exist. The speaker's love for this person is everlasting and admiring. The speaker can never stop thinking about this special person. He really knows how to unveil his deep thoughts about this person in a pleasing and affectionate

“Nay, if you read this line, remember not / The hand that writ it;(. . .)” (lines 5-6). By referring to himself as “the hand that writ it” (line 6) it seems like he’s trying to make his image seem less “material” as if he had only existed in his lover’s mind and it had all been just a dream. This would oblige his lover to forget him as though he had never existed. Following that, the speaker is more direct and also clearer about his wish of being forgotten “( . . .) for I love you so / That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot” (lines 6 and 7).; he asks his lover not to remember him when reading the poem after his death; the speaker’s love is so pure and real that he’d rather have his lover forget him and not suffer than nurture a memory of him everyday, living in pain in consequence of these memories.

Through the literary tools used in Triangles, the theme that love happens by fate and can not be controlled, is seen throughout the Sonnet. To begin, throughout the whole poem the author uses the literary device of personification. The triangle is personified, along with the points of the triangle. For example, line seven, “While that point is in love with another” (line 7) is a clear example of this literary device, for a point in a triangle can not love, and does not have feelings. Also, later in the sonnet, the triangle is said to want to be joined together, and a triangle can not want/desire anything. In this sonnet, personification is important to show the meaning of the poem. It shows how the triangle is a representation of a love triangle

An iambic foot has a long or stressed syllable following an unstressed or short syllable (/ x). Pentameter means that there are five metrical feet per line. Iambic Pentameter, therefore, means the verse has five feet of iambics.

In "Sonnet 73", the speaker uses a series of metaphors to characterize what he perceives to be the nature of his old age. This poem is not simply a procession of interchangeable metaphors; it is the story of the speaker slowly coming to grips with the finality of his age and his impermanence in time.

Attempting to understand poetry is not something that I am able to do, but I’ll attempt to figure out what they mean. The first poem that I will attempt to analyze is Shakespeare 18 sonnet. The sonnet is something that I have read in my years in school, but it’s not something I’ve tried to analyze. The poem is part of Shakespeare midsummers dream, and it’s one of the first parts of the play. While reading the 18th sonnet I recognized quite a bit of metaphors used to create imagery and draw the reader in. The entire sonnet is a comparison of a lover to a summers day. Shakespeare writes” Thou art more lovely and more temperate”, to say that the lover is calmer and more enjoyable than a summers day. He also writes “but thy eternal summer shall

In modern times, youth and beauty is an image seen everywhere. For example, a Versace billboard, magazine ad, TV commercial, all of which displays images of beautiful people. But what happens when this beauty fades? Shakespeare in his 12th sonnet talks about his experience and fading beauty. The purpose of this poem is to encourage a young man to not lose his beauty to the ravages of time. In order to do this, one must reproduce so beauty will live.

This sonnet brings to mind the feelings one has when faced with fear or loss. Lewis puts it beautifully that we all grieve in different manners, but that our pain is the same. I feel that he makes a call for people to be more understanding of others. That just because someone does not show the same emotion as you, does not mean they do not feel. It means they feel in a different manner. Lewis also says, “we do not shout and shake our fists at God”(p 476), to me this shows a deeper understanding of life. We all can find someone or something to blame for problems or injustices in life, but until we learn to put the blame where it lies we are doomed to feelings of pain and loss.

In “Shall I compare Thee to A Summer’s Day”, William Shakespeare compares his love interest to the beauty of summer. “Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day”, is a Shakespearean Sonnet. The poem is written in iambic pentameter, a rhyme scheme where each line consists of ten syllables that are divided into five pairs called iambs. An iamb is a metrical unit made up of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. Common in many of Shakespeare’s poems, the iambic pentameter gives the poem its consistent drum-like beat. This consistent rhythm is able to add to the sonnet because it gives the poem a personal touch. Because of the iambic pentameter the poem is always read or performed to the reader’s heartbeat adding more romance to what was already a very romantic poem. This piece of poetry consists of three quatrains followed by one couplet. Each Quatrain has it’s own ABAB rhyme scheme, and the sonnet finishes with a couplet consisting of an an AA rhyme scheme. Because each quatrain has its own variant of the ABAB rhyme scheme, helps divide the poem into readable chunks. Since the sonnet is one massive stanza, this makes the poem easier to read because it allows you to stop and comprehend each quatrain. The poem begins in a stately and matter of fact tone, but the tone shifts to an endearing tone of praise midway. Shakespeare says, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” (1). When Shakespeare says this, he is not only setting the theme, but also setting the

The comparison that we see in sonnet 18 specifically derives from the first line of the poem. The author continues to compare someone to a summer’s day and tell they are much better than that. First the author can differentiates the person and summer by stating that the person is much more lovely and calm to be around then outside on a summers day. He goes on to complain about summer being too hot or too dim and that the days are just way too short. Summer is constantly changing and its beauty never last very long. Whereas the person's beauty is forever and it never fades. Their personality is perfectly in the middle and not in the extremes like a summer’s day.

Love is expressed in the poems Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare and Crikey by Cilla McQueen through ideas of eternal beauty and being overwhelmed by love; and the feelings of excitement and longing for the preservation of the love conveyed.

The Sonnet 18 “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day “ is around the most admired and prominent of the 154 poems of William Shakespeare . Most researchers concur that the true recipient of the lyric, the mate of pleasant toward oneself, whom the artist is composing, is a man, however the sonnet is generally used to portray a lady. In the piece, the pleasant toward oneself contrasts his adoration with a June through August, and contends that his affection is superior to summer (Kennedy & Gioia). He additionally states that your beau will live everlastingly through the expressions of the lyric. Researchers have discovered parallels between this poem and sonnets Tristia and Amores of Ovid . A few interpretations have uncovered

Shakespeare's Sonnet 116, denying Time's harvest of love, contains 46 iambic, 15 spondaic, 6 pyrrhic, and 3 trochaic feet. Like the varying magnitudes of stars that distinguish the sky's constellations, infused with myths describing all degrees and types of love, the spondaic, trochaic, and pyrrhic substitutions create a pattern of meaning that can be inferred by the discerning eye and mind. Shakespeare emphasizes his denial of the effects of Time on love by accenting "not" in lines 1, 2, 9, and 11, and "no" in lines 5 and 14. The forceful spondees at the beginning and the regular iambic feet at the end of each quatrain progressively build the poet's passionate rejection of love's transience.

Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare is one of his seminal works, in which he compares his mistress to many things that occur amongst nature. He says that she is more “lovely and more temperate (than that of a summer’s day).” There is no more grandiose metaphor than that of nature for nature has crafted its beauty for epochs amongst the fiery hell that was the beginning of life. Even though nature is the epitome of beauty, it’s still imperfect or just simply, inconvenient. With this, he begins to negate the natural world by saying that rough winds shake the buds of May, summer is too short, the sun is sometimes too hot (or hides behind the clouds) and that everything that is beautiful will at one point lose its beauty: but hark! Not his fair mistress! The volta in the poem brings a critical juxtaposition. It highlights the important fact that his mistress supersedes all of the annoyances of nature. He says that her youth shall not fade nor shall her beauty for the mere fact that she will live amongst the lines of his humble composition for as long as there are humans, the poem itself shall live on, rendering his mistress an immortal. All of this accumulates and proclaims a powerful statement of romantic transcendence beyond death.