14 Appreciation of Poetry

Look at Shakespeare's sonnets 18. It might help you.

Can I compare you to summer?

You are more beautiful and gentle than summer.

The strong wind in May withered the buds,

How short summer is.

Don't fall in love with that beautiful day,

There will be fog in the blink of an eye.

Don't sigh, flowers bloom and fall,

Break through in a hurry in an impermanent fate.

Only your eternal summer is new every day,

Your beauty is intact.

Death has no chance to imprison you,

You will live forever in my eternal poem.

As long as someone recites my poem,

This poem will be immortal and keep your beauty forever.

Just as the same person can have more than one photo or portrait, a poem can also have more than one translation. Naturally, this photo, portrait and translation will not be exactly the same, but there will be good and bad points. However, due to different tastes of viewers, different works will get different scores in the eyes of different viewers.

The artistic feature of this poem lies in its dual themes: one is to praise the beauty of the poet's love for friends, and the other is to praise the immortal power of poetry. Secondly, the poet uses novel metaphors in his poems, but they are natural and vivid.