1, original:
Can I compare you to a summer day?
You are cuter and gentler;
The wind shook the lovely buds of May,
The lease in summer is too short;
Sometimes the eye of heaven shines too hot,
His golden complexion often darkens;
Every market sometimes declines,
The process of accidental or natural change has not been broken;
But your eternal summer will not fade
Nor will you lose the beauty you have;
Death will not boast that you wander in his shadow,
When you grow up in eternal time:
As long as human beings can breathe and see,
This is eternal, which gives you life. ?
2. Translation
I want to compare you to a charming summer day,
But you are cuter and gentler:
The strong wind destroyed the softness of May buds,
The return of summer is fading day by day;
The bright eyes in the sky occasionally shine,
But it is difficult to reflect his dim face;
All the bright colors have faded,
The process is so pale;
But you are like an eternal summer,
All good things will never change;
Even death dare not be arrogant to you,
Because you will live forever in immortal poems:
As long as the world is alive,
You will always be with this poem.
Sonnet is a lyric short poem originated from Italian folk, which prevailed in Europe in the early Renaissance. Its structure is very rigorous, and it is divided into two parts: the upper part has eight lines and the lower part has six lines, each with eleven syllables. The rhyming arrangement is abba abba cdc ded.
The structure of Shakespeare's sonnets is more rigorous. He divided the sonnets into two parts, the first part is three or four lines, and the second part is two lines, each with ten syllables. The rhymes are ABAB, CDCD, EFEF and GG. This form was later called "Shakespeare" or "Elizabethan".
For a poet, the more rigorous the structure of a poem is, the more difficult it is to express feelings, while Shakespeare's sonnets are unrestrained and unrestrained, just like his plays, and the language of the poems is imaginative and full of emotions.
Extended data
Evaluation of Shakespeare's Sonnets
1609, Shakespeare published Sonnets, which is his last non-dramatic work. Scholars can't confirm the completion time of each of 154 sonnets, but there is evidence that Shakespeare wrote these sonnets for a private reader throughout his creative career.
It seems that he has planned two opposite series: one is about a dark-skinned married woman's uncontrollable desire; The other is about the pure love of a white youth.
It is not clear whether these characters represent real people or the "I" in the poems represents Shakespeare himself, although william wordsworth, a British poet, thinks that "Shakespeare opened his heart" in these sonnets. ?
The version of 1609 is dedicated to a "Mr. W.H.", and the dedication calls him the "only begetter" of these poems. Whether this dedication was written by Shakespeare himself or added by the publisher Thomas Thorpe remains a mystery. Thorpe's initials appear at the end of the dedication page.
reference data
Baidu Encyclopedia-Shakespeare's Sonnets