And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see. In fairness, Shakespeare is also talking about the ability of writing more generally to keep the dead alive, metaphorically speaking, via its preservation and transmission in manuscript copying and via the still relatively new-fangled process of printing. Stripped by Chance or Nature's changing course. To translate is always a form of close reading, and this helped me understand the original poem better, too.
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd; Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade. A.

And beauty falls away from beautiful people. And the duration of summer is always too short. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines. Should I compare you to a summer's day?You are lovelier and more mild.Even in May rough winds shake the delicate flower buds,And the duration of summer is always too short.Sometimes the Sun, the eye of heaven, is too hot,And his golden face is often dimmed;And beauty falls away from beautiful people,Stripped by Chance or Nature's changing course.But your eternal summer will not fade,Nor will you lose possession of the beauty you own,Nor will death be able to boast that you wander in his shade,When you live in eternal lines, set apart from time.As long as men breathe or have eyes to see,As long as this sonnet lives, it will give life to you. Sometimes the Sun, the eye of heaven, is too hot. And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines.

And as I was reading Sonnet 18, it struck me how often these open-air get-togethers were next to rivers. By using our site, you acknowledge that you have read and understand our.

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so this will live, and this gives life to you and me. But your eternal summer will never fade, nor will you lose possession of your beauty, nor shall death brag that you are wandering in the underworld, once you’re captured in my eternal verses. Here is the sonnet: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? It would also take new directions, as if it were a ‘variation’ on the sonnet (Rays was where I began to adopt a jazz approach to old standards in poetry, improvising rhythmically and thematically, half in tribute to the original, half in commentary about it).

Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade.

Yes, the poem is in no doubt about the beauty of the lover in question: with a knowing sense of the storms and downpours of the English summer, Shakespeare tells us his matchless loved one can hardly be compared to summer when we know how rarely summer matches its ideal. And every fair from fair sometime declines. I levelled what is to modern eyes a strange subject-object situation in the original, in which poet and lover are peculiarly isolated from each other by virtue of the poet’s cool observation of her: I allowed poet and lover to walk together in imagined eternity (‘in these eternal lines you walk right by my side’). Line-by-line modern translations of every Shakespeare play and poem.

The season’s fairs, too, so easily decline – bad luck reigns.

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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. To make a conventional gloss, when he says ‘And every fair from fair sometime declines, / By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd’, he is probably meaning, with a melancholy sense of mortality, that every beautiful person loses their physical beauty in the end, sometimes by bad luck (the word ‘chance’ suggests a single episode, an accident or a sudden illness perhaps) or simply through the normal (‘untrimm'd’) passing of time. When Shakespeare tells his lover that Death, personified, won’t ‘brag thou wander'st in his shade’, he is offering her immortality: he is suggesting either that she will not pass into the territory or that, if she does, then Death will still not be able to boast about entire possession of her because she is in a sense still alive, thanks to William Shakespeare Esquire. Another aspect of Sonnet 18 I wanted to reorient is what I’d call its ‘competition of the braggers’. And every fair from fair sometime declines.


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