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On The Beauty of Sonnet 18

It

’

s obvious that sonnet 18 is so great a success that it has been

spread

from

mouth

to

mouth

since

it

was

poem

embodies

exquisite

skill

of

Shakespear

’

s

can

feel

diversified

beauty

in

this

outstanding

masterpiece

especially

the

beauty of rhyme scheme

，

，

figures of speech and theme.

Firstly

，

sonnet 18 of Shakespeare is different from traditional

sonnet

such

as

Italian

sonnet

in

rhyme

consists

of

three

quatrains

and

a

couplet

，

rhymed

abab

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iambic

pentameter

contains

tuneful

and

vivid

rhyme

and

proper

cadence,such

as

the

first

sentence

“

Shall

I/compare/thee

to/a

sum/mer

’

s day?

”

The forepart of each foot is falling and the latter is

rising

g

this

rhythmical

poem,we

might

have

illusion

that

we

were

listening

to

music

from

the

valley

with

light-hearted and cheerful mood.

Apart

from

the

rhyme

scheme,the

images

in

this

sonnet

are

impressive

and

attractive

as

read

this

sonnet,we

can

easily get ourselves across that it is an imaginative poem based on the

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“

summer

”

.Seeing this word,we soon come up with blooming

flowers

and

exuberant

trees

in

our

r,the

summer

refered in this poem is not the scorching summer as we thought for

ly,it indicates his friend

’

s cute and hints that his friend

is so young and full of e summer is filled with

the

life

revives

in

spring

and

at

its

peak

in

the

beginning,Shakespear compares his friend to summer,but his friend

is superior in youth and beauty.

“

Shall I compare thee to a summer

’

s

day?Thou

art

more

lovely

and

more

temperate.

”

Then,Shakespear

says

“

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.

”

Although

some

things in

summer

is wonderful,they

still

can

’

t

stop

time

and

nature

grabbing

their

the

seventh

and

eighth

sentences

say

“

And every fair from fair sometime declines

，

By chance or nature's

changing

course

untrimmed.

”

The

first

“

fair

”

means

“

beautiful

person

”

,

but

the

next

“

fair

”

means

“

beauty

”

.Anything

that

’

s

beautiful won

’

t last forever because of accident and necessity. In this

sonnet,Shakespear compares the beauty and transient of summer to

the

elapsing

of

a

person

’

s

beauty

and

sly,Shakespear

loves his friend so much.

In

this

short

poem,Shakespear

performs

the

figures

of

speech

elasticly and

perfectly,which adds

much

fascination

to

the

theme

of

this

these

figures

of

speech

reflect

the

beauty

of

first line

“

Shall I compare thee to a s

‘

summer

’

s day?

”

makes

use

of

simile

and

rhetorical

similarity

of