Sonnet18(英文賞析)

1、Sonnet 18By William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summe'rs 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: Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines And often is his gold complexion dimed; And

2、every fair form fair sometimes 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 wande'rst in his shade. When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st: So long as men c

3、an breathe,or eyes can see, So long lives this,and this gives life to thee. 十四行詩其十八威廉莎士比亞 我能把你比作夏日嗎？ 盡管你更可愛、更溫和； 夏日的狂風(fēng)可能會摧殘五月的花兒，季節(jié)的限制又減少了可擁有的日光； 天空的巨眼有時過于灼熱， 常使自身的輝煌無故湮沒； 每一種美都會消逝， 不管愿意或是無奈； 然而你這盛夏將永存不朽， 連你所有的美都不會褪去； 死神不忍逼近， 生命只會長存；只要人類能呼吸，能看見； 我的詩就會存在，而你的生命也會延續(xù)。Sonnet 18 is absolutely one of the m

4、ost famous sonnets of Shakespeare. Almost every English learner can recite some lines of it either for appreciation or pleasure as both the thematic feature and artistic feature shine brightly and attractively. In the following, I will illustrate my understanding of this sonnet in these two aspects.

5、Firstly, something about the sonne'ts thematic feature.The first two lines, in the form of a question and an assertive 肯定 statement, show the poet's idea of comparing his beloved with a summer's day and alsopoint out that the beloved person is more beautiful and less extreme than summe.

6、rIt is understandable that summer is chosen as the comparison target because it is lovely and pleasant. While the next six lines describe the less pleasant aspects of summer: the too strong wind, the extreme hot weather as well as the easy disappearance of all beauties. The ninth line takes up the c

7、omparison with summer again: summer has by now become the summer of life. The comparison turns into a contrast by referring back to the seventh. The poet's assurance becomes even firmer in lines eleven and twelve, which contain a promise that death will be conquered that the beloved one's sp

8、irit and life will surely be eternal. The last two lines further emphasize the poet's belief that the eternity of spirit and virtue of his beloved by pointing out the poem's eternal function and existence.With this arrangement of structure and content, the poet gives this sonnet two thematic

9、 meanings.The primary meaning is simply a statement to praise the beauty of the beloved one. But the more important and deep one is the poefs thought that the power of the poem which can defy 不屈 服 time and last forever. Its double themes are one distinguishing feature of the sonnet.Secondly, the ana

10、lysis of this sonnefst artistic feature.It contains 14 lines. We can easily observe that the ends of line 1 and line 3 have the end rhyme: /ei/, line 2 and line 4 rhyme with /eit/. And these four lines form a quatrain. The same form is used in the second quatrain from line 5 to line 8,the third quat

11、rain from line 9 to line 12. However ， the last two lines have their own form, as they have the end rhyme:/i:/Each line in this sonnet is in iambic pentameterwhich means each line has five feet, usually an unaccentedsyllable followed by an accented syllable. For example, we can divide the first line

12、 into five independent feet as“ Shall I/ compare/ thee to/ a sum/ mer' s day? With accents on shall,com,thee,a,mer respectively.Some figures of speech are also in use like simile 明喻 and personification 擬人 . We can see the sun is regarded as “the eye of heavenwhich is a simile. We can find the wo

13、rd “hisused to describe the sun and the death which gives them life as the illustration of the use of personification. This makes the images the poet points out linked to each other and vividly form the whole imagery.To make a general conclusion of its stylistic feature, this sonnet is a typical Shakespeariansonnet with fourteen lines in iambic pentamete