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i need 5-8 sentences explaining why you would choose this... more reaction about this poem.. sonnet 18 by shakespeare... Posted by sweelet on Feb 4, 2009. |
Sonnets Group
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try this link... Posted by frizzyperm on Feb 4, 2009. |
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Sonnet 18, Shakespeare's best known sonnet, describes beauty and decay, and references nature and someone beloved, making a comparison between both. What's significant about this sonnet is the self-reference -- although beauty decays as a person gets older and dies or as the seasons change from spring to winter, the couplet suggests that as long as this sonnet continues to be read, the beauty it describes will endure, like an eternal summer. (see Robert Frost's "Noting Gold Can Stay" for a more recent poem describing something similar.) Posted by enotechris on Feb 4, 2009. |
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SONNET 18 This sonnet is a love poem, like so many of Shakespeare's sonnets. In this one, the person to whom it is addressed is described in terms as beautiful as a summer's day. She is lovelier, actually, since the wind of summer's days rough the darling buds of May and the sun is too hot sometimes. Her beauty will not ever fade...not even in death...since as long as the lines Shakespeare are read she will live also. Posted by amy-lepore on Feb 5, 2009. |
