Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet 18) | ||
by William Shakespeare | ||
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Task:
Write a text beginning with "Shall I compare thee to ...", between six and twenty lines. It can be either a traditional poem or a modern one, it may even be prose. It can be a love poem, but doesn't have to be.
If you are looking for a paraphrase of the sonnet in order to understand it better, you can look here:
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Oh, I really like poems about anything ... but I think I'm not very good in writing one by myself!
AntwortenLöschenI hope that's not too bad ;)