 #1 (permalink) Tue Mar 30, 2010 0:32 am "every fair from fair" |
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Hi,
Could you help me read this sonnet?
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1. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
2. Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
3. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
4. And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
5. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
6. And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
7. And every fair from fair sometime declines,
8. By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
9. But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
10. Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
11. Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
12. When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
13. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
14. So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. --S18 |
L7. Is every fair from fair = every existing fair/beauty from the essential/eternal fairness?
L8. Does untrimmed modify nature's changing course only?
L11. Is the line = Nor shall death boast that you wander in death's shade?
L12. Is to time thou grow'st = into time you grow or you grow as time goes on?
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