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英文赏析： This is one of the most famous of all the sonnets, justifiably so. But it would be a mistake to take it entirely in isolation, for it links in with so many of the other sonnets through the themes of the descriptive power of verse; the ability of the poet to depict the fair youth adequately, or not; and the immortality conveyed through being hymned in these eternal lines. It is noticeable that here the poet is full of confidence that his verse will live as long as there are people drawing breath upon the earth, whereas later he apologises for his poor wit and his humble lines which are inadequate to encompass all the youths excellence. Now, perhaps in the early days of his love, there is no such self-doubt and the eternal summer of the youth is preserved forever in the poets lines. The poem also works at a rather curious level of achieving its objective through dispraise. The summers day is found to be lacking in so many respects (too short, too hot, too rough, sometimes too dingy), but curiously enough one is left with the abiding impression that the lovely boy is in fact like a summers day at its best, fair, warm, sunny, temperate, one of the darling buds of May, and that all his beauty has been wonderfully highlighted by the comparison。这是整体赏析 1. Shall I compare thee to a summers day? This is taken usually to mean What if I were to compare thee etc? The stock comparisons of the loved one to all the beauteous things in nature hover in the background throughout. One also remembers Wordsworths lines: Well talk of sunshine and of song,And summer days when we were young, Sweet childish days which were as longAs twenty days are now.Such reminiscences are indeed anachronistic, but with the recurrence of words such as summer, days, song, sweet, it is not difficult to see the permeating influence of the Sonnets on Wordsworths verse. 2. Thou art more lovely and more temperate: The youths beauty is more perfect than the beauty of a su