英国文学第一讲：莎士比亚的十四行诗.ppt

William Shakespeare and his Sonnets Shakespeare’s literary achievements Major features of his drama Comments Sonnet 18 Sonnet: a 14-line poem with any of several fixed formal patterns of line endings (rhymes). Rhyme: (of words or lines of poetry) to end with the same sound (as another word, or as each other), including a vowel. Ex. “house” rhymes with “mouse”; “school” rhymes with “cool”. The rhythmical pattern in Sonnet 18 a b a b c d c d e f e f g g day – temperate – may –date –shines –dimmed –declines-untrimmed –fade –ow’st –shade –grow’st –see –thee Some old English words Thee – you Thou –you Art –are Hath –has /have Thy – your Thine – yours Thyself – yourself Ow’st – owest: own; possess Grow’st – grow Shall I compare thee to a summers day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summers 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 natures changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owst, Nor shall death brag thou wandrest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growst, So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. The theme(s) of sonnet 18 Love Friendship ? 　 Summary: You are comparable to a summer day, but summer’s beauty is brief. You, on the other hand, will enjoy eternal youth in my verse, which can make you immortal. Sonnet 1-14 /17are urging one to have children to keep beauty that is God’s / Nature’s giving. Sonnet 15\16 show the author’s wish to “make war upon this bloody tyrant, Time”, holding that beautiful poetry is a power weapon to combat time and death. Sonnet 17 Who will believe my verse in time to come If it were filled with your most high deserts? Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb Which hides your life and s