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精品 SONNET 18 (William Shakespeare)十四行诗 Shall I compare thee to a summers day? 我怎么能够将你比作夏天？ Thou art more lovely and more temperate: 你比夏天更美丽温婉。 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, 狂风将五月的蓓蕾凋残， And summers lease hath all too short a date: 夏日的勾留何其短暂。 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, 休恋那烈日当空， And often is his gold complexion dimm’d, 转眼会云雾迷蒙； And every fair from fair sometime declines, 休叹那百花凋零， By chance, or natures changing course untrimm’d: 摧折于无常天命； But thy eternal summer shall not fade 唯有你永恒的夏日长新， Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st, 你的美貌亦毫发无损。 Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade, 死神也无缘将你幽禁， When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st. 你在我永恒的诗中长存。 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, 只要世间尚有人吟诵我的诗篇， So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. 这诗就将不朽，永葆你的芳颜。 Structure: Runs in iambic pentameter, rhymed ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. 1. What is the theme of this sonnet? Eternality, beauty, immorality 2. Why is the speaker’s beloved more lovely than a summer’s day? One thing he is thinking of is how short lived summer is. Another reason he says his love is more beautiful than summer day is that the summer whether can be harsh, making nature look less beautiful than it does otherwise. 3. There is obviously a shift of tone and subject matter in line 9. Describe such a shift. The author compared the loved one, just in soft and sentimental tone similar to many love sonnets, to summer’s day in the first 4 lines, while, in the following 4, developing this concept to the p oor power of people fa