sonnet 18赏析（2020年12月整理）.pdf

1 Shakespeare - Sonnet 18 The speaker of the poem opens with a question that is addressed to the beloved, Shall I compare thee to a summers day? This question is comparing her to the summer time of the year. It is during this time when the flowers are blooming, trees are full of leaves, the weather is warm, and it is generally thought of as an enjoyable time during the year. In lines 2 and 3, the speaker explains what mainly separates the young woman from the summers day: she is more lovely and more temperate. However in line 4, the speaker gives the feeling again that the summer months are often to short. In the summer days, the sun, the eye of heaven, often shines too hot, or too dim, his gold complexion dimmed, that is, summer is moving along too quickly for the speaker, its time here needs to be longer, and it also means that the chilling of autumn is coming upon us because the flowers will soon be withering. The final portion of the sonnet tells how the beloved differs from the summer in various respects. Her beauty will be one that lasts forever, and never end or die. In the couplet at the bottom, the speaker explains how that the beloveds beauty will accomplish this everlasting life unlike a summer. And it is because her beauty is kept alive in this poem, which will last forever. On the surface, the poem is a statement of praise about the beauty of the beloved woman. The beloveds eternal summer shall not fade precisely because it is embodied in the sonnet. He doesnt want her beauty to be compared to a transitory period like summer. Transiency（短暂，稍纵即逝） of time is also the themes of Sonnet 18.The poet does not want the beauty to fade with time. To him, her beauty must be like the eternal summer. Beauty should be appreciated. The best way to preserve her beauty is to keep it in this poem. Actually, the writer wanted to express his view that art can keep the beauty forever. Art not only can make people enjoy the beauty by reading it, but also be a beauty itself. Natural beauty would be knocked out with the passing of the time. Only can the art bring the eternity. For the speaker, love transcends nature. The poets love is so powerful that even death is unable to curtail （减少） it. The speakers love lives on for future generations to admire through the power of the written word through the sonnet itself. The final couplet explains that the beloveds “eternal summer” will continue as long as there are people alive to read this sonnet. 我能否将你比作夏天, 你比夏天更美丽温婉。

狂风将五月的蓓蕾凋残， 夏日的勾留何其短暂 休恋那丽日当空， 转眼会云雾迷蒙 休叹那百花飘零， 催折于无常的天命 唯有你永恒的夏日常新， 你的美貌亦毫发无损 死神也无缘将你幽禁， 你在我永恒的诗中长存 2 只要世间尚有人吟诵我的诗篇， 这诗就将不朽，永葆你的芳颜 。