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sonnet 18 莎士比亚的作品《第十八行诗》赏析 英文版

The speaker of the poem opens with a question that is addressed to the beloved, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's 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. The following eleven lines in the poem are also dedicated to similar comparisons between the beloved and summer days. In lines 2 and 3, the speaker explains what mainly separates the young woman from the summer's day: she is "more lovely and more temperate." (Line 2) Summer's days tend toward extremes: they are sometimes shaken by "rough winds" (line3) which happens and is not always as welcoming as the woman. However in line 4, the speaker gives the feeling again that the summer months are often to short by saying, "And summer抯lease hath too short a date." In the summer days, the sun, "the eye of heaven" (line 5), often shines "too hot," or too dim, "his gold complexion dimmed" (line 6), that is there are many hot days during the summer but soon the sun begins to set earlier at night because autumn is approaching. 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, as "every fair from fair sometime declines." (Line 7) 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, "Thy eternal summer shall not fade." (Line 9), and never end or die. In the couplet at the bottom, the speaker explains how that the beloved's 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. It will live "as long as men can breathe or eyes can see." (Line 13)On the surface, the poem is on the surface simply a statement of praise about the beauty of the beloved woman and perhaps summer to the speaker is sometimes too unpleasant with the extremes of windiness and heat that go along with it. However, the beloved in the poem is always mild and temperate by her nature and nothing at all like the summer. It is incidentally brought to life as being described as the "eye of heaven" with its "gold complexion". The imagery throughout the sonnet is simple and attainable to the reader, which is a key factor in understanding the poem. Then the speaker begins to describe the summer again with the "darling buds of May" giving way to the " summer’s lease", springtime moving into the warmth of the summer. The speaker then starts to promise to talk about this beloved, that is so great and awing that she is to live forever in this sonnet. The beloved is so great that the speaker will even go as far as to say that, "So long as men breathe, or eyes can see," the woman will live. The language is almost too simple when comparing it to the rest of Shakespeare’s sonnets; it is not heavy with alliteration or verse, and nearly every line is its own self-contained clause, almost every line ends with some punctuation that effects a pause. But it is this that makes Sonnet18 stand out for the rest in the book. It is much more attainable to understand and it allows for the reader to fully understand how great this beloved truly is because she may live forever in it. An important theme of the sonnet, as it is an important theme throughout much of the poetry in general, is the power of the speaker's poem to defy time and last forever. And so by doing this it is then carrying the beauty of the beloved down to future generations and eventually

莎士比亚名言英汉对照

◆爱比杀人重罪更难隐藏；爱情的黑夜有中午的阳光 ◆爱的力量是和平，从不顾理性、成规和荣辱， 它能使一切恐惧、震惊和痛苦在身受时化作甜蜜 ◆爱情是一朵生长在绝崖边缘的花，要想采摘它必须有勇气 ◆爱情不过是一种疯 ◆爱情里面要是搀杂了和它本身无关的算计，那就不是真的爱情 ◆不太热烈的爱情才会维持久远 ◆草率的婚姻少美满 ◆充实思想不在于言语的富丽莎士比亚的简介 ◆纯朴和忠诚所呈献的礼物，总是可取的 ◆毒药有时也能治病 ◆真正的爱情是不能用言语表达的，行为才是忠心的最好说明 ◆恋爱是盲目的，恋人们瞧不见他们自己所干的傻事 ◆爱比杀人重罪更难隐藏；爱情的黑夜有中午的阳光 ◆黑夜使眼睛失去它的作用，但却使耳朵的听觉更为灵敏，它虽然妨碍了视觉的活动，却给予了听觉加倍的补偿 ◆洪水可以从涓滴的细流中发生 ◆假如我必须死，我会把黑暗当作新娘，把它拥抱在我的怀里 ◆不太热烈的爱情才会维持久远 ◆当我们还买不起幸福的时候，我们绝不应该走得离橱窗太近，盯着幸福出神 ◆爱情不是花荫下的甜言，不是桃花源中的蜜语，不是轻绵的眼泪，更不是死硬的强迫，爱情是建立在共同语言的基础上的 ◆真实爱情的途径并不平坦 ◆忠诚的爱情充溢在我的心里，我无法估计自己享有的财富 ◆每一个被束缚的奴隶都可以凭着他自己的手挣脱他的锁链 ◆爱的力量是和平，从不顾理性、成规和荣辱， 它能使一切恐惧、震惊和痛苦在身受时化作甜蜜 ◆命运如娼妓，贫贱遭遗弃 ◆闪光的东西，并不都是金子，动听的语言，并不都是好话 ◆当爱情小船被浪掀翻时，让我们友好地说声再见 ◆起先的冷淡，将会使以后的恋爱更加热烈 ◆轻浮和虚荣是一个不知足的贪食者，它在吞噬一切之后，结果必然牺牲在自己的贪欲之下 ◆情欲犹如炭火，必须使它冷却，否则，那烈火会把心儿烧焦 ◆因为她生得美丽，所以被男人追求；因为她是女人，所以被男人俘获 ◆人生就象于段重复叙述的故事一般可厌 ◆白糖上面浇蜂蜜，蜂蜜上面盖白糖 ◆爱情的野心使人倍受痛苦 ◆境由爱造，还是爱逐境迁 ◆一个使性子的女人，就象翻腾的浊水，纵使口干舌燥，也不愿啜饮一口 ◆人心和岩石一样，也可以有被水滴穿的孔 ◆你甜蜜的爱，就是珍宝，我不屑把处境跟帝王对调 ◆诡计需要伪装，真理喜欢阳光莎士比亚名言 ◆人生如痴人说梦，充满着喧哗与骚动，却没有任何意义

莎士比亚简介 英文版

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莎士比亚简介——英文

I. Introduction Any discussion of Shakespeare's life is bound to be loaded with superlatives. In the course of a quarter century, Shakespeare wrote some thirty-eight plays. Taken individually, several of them are among the world's finest written works; taken collectively, they establish Shakespeare as the foremost literary talent of his own Elizabethan Age and, even more impressively, as a genius whose creative achievement has never been surpassed in any age. In light of Shakespeare's stature and the passage of nearly four centuries since his death, it is not surprising that hundreds of Shakespeare biographies have been written in all of the world's major languages. Scanning this panorama, most accounts of the Bard's life (and certainly the majority of modern studies) are contextual in the sense that they place the figure of Shakespeare against the rich tapestry of his "Age" or "Times" or "Society." This characteristic approach to Shakespeare biography is actually a matter of necessity, for without such fleshing out into historical, social, and literary settings, the skeletal character of what we know about Shakespeare from primary sources would make for slim and, ironically, boring books. As part of this embellishment process, serious scholars continue to mine for hard facts about the nature of Shakespeare's world. The interpretation of their meaning necessarily varies, often according to the particular school or ideology of the author. Whatever the differences of opinion, valid or at least plausible views about Shakespeare, his character and his personal experience continue to be advanced. Yet even among modern Shakespeare biographies, in addition to outlandish interpretations of the available facts, there persists (and grows) a body of traditions about such matters as Shakespeare's marriage, his move to London, the circumstances of his death and the like. The result of all this is that there is now a huge tapestry of descriptive, critical, and analytical work about Shakespeare in existence, much of it reasonable, some of it outlandish, and some of it hogwash. II. Three important points about Shakespeare In examining Shakespeare's life, three broad points should be kept in mind from the start. First, despite the frustration of Shakespeare biographers with the absence of a primary source of information written during (or even shortly after) his death on 23 April 1616 (his fifty-second birthday), Shakespeare's life is not obscure. In fact, we know more about Shakespeare's life, its main events and contours, than we know about most famous Elizabethans outside of the royal court itself. Shakespeare's life is unusually well-documented: there are well over 100 references to Shakespeare and his immediate family in local parish, municipal, and commercial archives and we also have at least fifty observations about Shakespeare's plays (and through them, his life) from his contemporaries. The structure of Shakespeare's life is remarkably sound; it is the flesh of his personal experience, his motives, and the like that have no firm basis and it is, of course, this descriptive content in which we are most interested. Second, the appeal of seeing an autobiographical basis in Shakespeare's plays and poetry must be tempered by what the bulk of the evidence has to say about him. Although there are fanciful

莎士比亚语录英文版

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莎士比亚李尔王之弄人解析

Class: Class 3 School Number: 20064398 Name: Wei Yun Course Name: Selected Readings in British Literature Role Analysis of the Fool in King Lear Fool is an important role freq uently appeared in Shakespeare?s works, such as Touchstone in As You Like It, Feste in Twelfth Night,Lavatch in All's Well That Ends Well, etc. The fool in King Lear is of course a character figured successfully, revealing the truth with seemingly addlepated words. Actually, in his woks, though figured as an antagonist, the fool is taken as Shakespeare?s prolocutor, with great wisdom and philosophy. Through not scrupling to speak the truth out, they satirize human depravity boldly and served as a sharp comparison with the villain of the piece in the plays. They insufflate a gloomy wind into the bright and warm world in the comedies, and affuse a rational and warmhearted spring to the somber and cruel world. They apperceive everything and escape from the subcelestial confusion; they seem insane but actually not; they own vivid image, unique personality, spiritual indifference and insular character; they have extraordinary artistic charm in Shakespeare?s works. …Fool? means …a man employed by a king or queen to entertain people by telling jokes, singing songs, etc? in the dictionary.① The fool represents the need of freedom instead of rules and regulations, he has the freedom to speak out whatever he sees without the worldly consideration and disguise. So the fool could also be regarded as a foresighted person and discovers the irrationality and absurdness of the society from a particular visual angle. His humorous and seemingly foolish words bring us laugh but they contain wisdom and truth as the same time. With regard to the fool in King Lear, as an irreplaceable role in this play, the fool is the symbol and extension of Cordelia, the teacher of King Lear and saves King Lear in the end. It was him who reve als Lear?s foolishness directly, criticizes Goneril and Regan?s selfishness and cruelty inexorably and also companies Lear, reminds him and saves him.

莎士比亚——第十二夜作品分析

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