Can I compare you to summer? Day?
Can I let you spend the summer?
You are more lovely and gentle.
You are more beautiful and gentle than summer.
The wind shook the lovely buds of May,
The strong wind in May withered the buds,
The lease in summer is too short.
How short summer is.
Sometimes the eye of heaven shines too hot,
Don't fall in love with that beautiful day,
His golden complexion often darkens.
There will be fog in the blink of an eye.
Every beauty will decline,
Don't sigh, flowers bloom and fall,
Accidental or natural change? Not trimmed.
Break through in a hurry in an impermanent fate.
But your eternal summer will not die,
Only your eternal summer is new every day,
And you won't lose the beauty you have.
Your beauty is intact.
Death will not boast that you wander in his shadow,
Death has no chance to imprison you,
When you grow up in the eternal years.
You will live forever in my eternal poem.
As long as human beings can breathe and see,
As long as someone recites my poem,
This life lasts forever, and this life is given to you.
This poem will be immortal and keep your beauty forever.
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The above is the most famous poem by william shakespeare (1564- 16 16), a famous British dramatist, humanist thinker and poet during the European Renaissance.
This poem has two themes: praising the beauty of one's lover; Praise the immortal power of poetry art!
We are all familiar with Shakespeare's dramatic genius, who left 37 dramatic works to mankind:
Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Romeo and Juliet ........
Shakespeare's tragedies and comedies are a summary of the two fates of mankind.
Rich in historical depth, philosophical speculation, political intrigue and psychological insight.
So some people say: if you know life, you can read Shakespeare; If you understand Shakespeare, you will understand life!
But the greatness of the master of words is not limited to the stage art, and Shakespeare's romantic feelings are also reflected in 154 sonnets and two long poems, including the above one.
Throughout the history of literature, Shakespeare is definitely the one who has brought the language of love to the extreme:
"I would like to live in your heart, die in your arms and be buried in your eyes."
"My love will last forever in my poems."
"Your appearance belongs to my eyes, and I have your love in my heart."
"Everyone has only one shadow, but you can make millions of shadows by yourself."
"I once possessed you, just like a beautiful dream, in which I was the king and woke up with nothing."
"This boundless universe is illusory to me; You, my soul, all my property. "
"Love is as deep as the sea. The more you give, the more you get. "
"People who have never been hurt will laugh at the scars on others."
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Between the lines that ordinary people want to write but can't write, I worship the freedom of Shakespeare-style language, its love and outlook on life.
Shakespeare's sonnets add a lot of Elizabethan style to the Italian folk sonnets, and his poems are more rigorous in structure, just like his plays.
It is said that all Shakespeare's poems are written for a handsome young man and a brown woman.
But who are these two "protagonists"? There are no words to learn.
Stratford, Shakespeare's hometown (Stafford-upon-Avon, Watak, central England) is a small town with a strong cultural atmosphere.
The place where Shakespeare lived in his early years and later years is naturally the holy land that his world literature lovers yearn for. Visitors who like Shakespeare generally don't miss a day trip to Stratford!
Shakespeare's birthday and death are both on April 23rd.
During the period of 1995, UNESCO designated April 23rd of each year as World Reading Day to commemorate the literary giants including Shakespeare.
To be or not to be, to be or not to be?
There is no doubt that Shakespeare, the four-century literary Zeus, will definitely live forever!
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