The full text is as follows:
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Can I compare you to a summer's day? ?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
You are more beautiful and gentle than summer.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date :
The stay of summer is so short.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
No love for that beautiful sun in the sky,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
It will be cloudy and misty in a blink of an eye.
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
Don't sigh that the flowers are falling,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd
Ultimate destiny due to impermanence.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Only your eternal summer shall be renewed,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Your beauty remains unscathed. ?
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
You live forever in my eternal poetry.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
As long as there are people in the world who recite my poems,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
This poem will be immortal and keep your beauty forever.
This poem unfolds the imagination with the intention of summer. Summer is always full of vitality and vitality, just like the poet's friends in their youth. As a beautiful existence, "you" is far more charming than summer; although every kind of beauty will be fleeting, the beauty of "you" will last forever.
Extended information:
This poem comes from "Shakespeare's Sonnets". This collection of poems contains ***154 of Shakespeare's sonnets. This poem is the first Eighteen songs, and one of the more famous ones. Shakespeare's sonnets are not only ingenious in structure and rich in vocabulary, but also reflect the humanistic thoughts of this period and have a strong background of the times.
In short, Shakespeare's sonnets have a high status in the history of British poetry and deserve an unprecedented reputation. This poem uses "iambic pentameter", which makes the rhythm distinct and the point of view prominent. Shakespeare's fourteen lines swept away the pretentious, gaudy, empty and feeble atmosphere of the poetry world at that time.
It is said that Shakespeare's sonnets are dedicated to two people: the first 126 are dedicated to an aristocratic young man, and the latter are dedicated to a dark-skinned girl. This poem is the 18th in the collection of sonnets and belongs to the former. Some people say that his sonnets are professional literary creations. Of course, these are irrelevant, the poetry itself is great.