OH! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
SONNET 18
Shall I
compare thee to a summer's 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:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
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:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
William Shakespeare is one of the well-known poet and play writer. His works
are used worldwide. His poems are full of elements of love, sexuality and also
about betrayals. The meanings are in between the lines. Here I have chosen Sonnet
18 if I am going to teach form 4 Literature. This poem is much easier to
understand. Sonnet 18 is the best known and well-loved of all 154 sonnets
written by Shakespeare.. It is also one of the most straightforward in language
and intent so it will be easier for the students and the teacher to understand.
The stability of love and its power to immortalize the poetry and the subject
of that poetry is the theme. The poet starts praising his friend and the poem
slowly builds the image of his friend into a perfect being. This poem has such
profound meaning of love and care. It will definitely be suitable to be used in
a upper secondary classes. Students can write their own poems using this sonnet
as their guidelines.
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Before attempting to teach, the teacher must take the trouble to listen to the pronunciation so that the teacher will not a mistake while teaching.
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