Perfection Vs Humanity

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” (“Sonnet 18”) is one of Shakespeare’s most famous poems. It is the model English, or Shakespearean sonnet: it contains three quatrains and a finishing couplet.. The poem follows the traditional English sonnet form by having the octet introduce an idea or set up the poem, and the sestet beginning with a volta, or turn in perspective. In the octet of Sonnet 18, Shakespeare poses the question “Shall I compare the to a summer’s day” and basically begins to describe all the bad qualities of summer. He says it’s too windy, too short, too hot, and too cloudy. Eventually fall is going to come and take away all the beauty because of the changes nature brings. In the sestet, however, his tone changes as he begins to talk about his beloved’s “eternal summer” (Shakespeare line 9). This is where the turn takes place in the poem. Unlike the summer, their beauty will never fade. Not even death can stop their beauty for, according to Shakespeare, as long as people can read this poem, his lover’s beauty will continue to live. Shakespeare believes that his art is more powerful than any season and that in it beauty can be permanent.

The gloomy tone in the sonnet’s octet reveals that the speaker is haunted by the fact that she never formed any meaningful romantic connections with her past lovers while implying that she feels it is

In the poem Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? By William Shakespeare, the author is showing his love through nature. He is actually comparing every little thing he feels is right about his companion to something in nature. He says, " Thou art more lovely and more temperate." From this the author is saying one's love is more lovable and is hotter than summer. He then goes on to say, "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May." He is saying that before summer comes its spring time and the windy weather is knocking all of the buds off the flowers and making them new, so he is she is more better now that they have gone through a rough time before. After that he says, "And summer's lease hath all too short a date." He means by this that the summer time goes by very fast, so they have to savor every moment together during this time while

When you hear the word perfection, what is the first image that pops out of your mind? Is it the bright, shiny, twinkling smile of Ian Somerhalder or is it the sexy body of Megan Fox? Or perhaps is it just the cute face of your crush in one of your classes? Or maybe the simple concept of having complete and functional limbs is enough for you to be considered perfect already. For Merriam Webster, perfection is the freedom from fault or defect – or just plain flawlessness. As for most of the people, they view perfection as someone having a face which resembles a Greek god; or somebody who has immaculately fair, white skin similar to an angel that fell from the heavens. They consider someone perfect if he has the ability to make their jaw

Poetry is oftentimes a fascinating bit of literature. In a short amount of time, one is expected to have a topic and cut to the chase of things. This poem is a sonnet by none other than the legendary Shakespeare. Sonnet 150 has all the makings of a sonnet with the standardized form that makes it unidentifiably Shakespeare. The sonnet follows the rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg which shows three quatrains and one couplet. Sonnet 150 is a one of the later poems that changes significantly from Shakespeare’s earlier works about love and crooning about how magical these feelings are. When looking at these later poems, we see Shakespeare acknowledging that love has its faults. These feelings are no longer the perfect centerpiece that can easily blind those in youth. Now that some age has passed, we the reader are in for a more grounded oftentimes colder treat that mirrors reality far more accurately than those of a love struck puppy. This sonnet is actually about beauty, how that beauty is handled, and ends with a truth about two different beings can come to terms with one another with all the flaws that they are riddled with.

When you hear the word perfection, what is the first image that pops out of your mind? Is it the bright, shiny, twinkling smile of Ian Somerhalder or is it the sexy body of Megan Fox? Or perhaps is it just the cute face of your crush in one of your classes? Or maybe the simple concept of having complete and functional limbs is enough for you to be considered perfect already. For Merriam Webster, perfection is the freedom from fault or defect – or just plain flawlessness. As for most of the people, they view perfection as someone having a face which resembles a Greek god; or somebody who has immaculately fair, white skin similar to an angel that fell from the heavens. They consider someone perfect if he has the ability to make their jaw

The couplet of this sonnet renews the speaker's wish for their love, urging her to "love well" which he must soon leave. But after the third quatrain, the speaker applauds his lover for having courage and adoration to remain faithful to him. The rhyme couplet suggests the unconditional love between the speaker and his

Similarly, Shakespeare also employs the themes of time and eternity to glorify love in another one of his most famous poems – Sonnet 18, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”. In this sonnet, the speaker compares a “beloved” to a summer’s day, and says that the beloved’s eternal summer will never fade, that the beloved would be kept alive forever by the poem. Once again, Shakespeare personifies death, this time as the one who oversees a “shade” - Shakespeare writes that the beloved will conquer all and will not be swept into this sickly light of Death.

In the line “By chance or by nature's changing course untrimmed,” there is longer syllable words which gives the idea of a more calm and melodic tone--as opposed to “But thy eternal summer shall not fade,” which has shorter syllable words, adding stress to the sentence by restricting air flow. The change in rhyme scheme is sudden and unexpected; however, the way he adds it and incorporates it adds to the value and brilliance of Sonnet 18.

Salvador Dali once stated, “Have no fear of perfection - you’ll never reach it”. What is perfection, exactly? According to the English Dictionary, perfection is “The condition, state, or quality of being free, or as free as possible, from all flaws or defects”. The definition, itself, saying “...or as free as possible…”, states that being completely perfect is impossible. Perfection is merely a goal that no one can reach.

Both William Shakespeare’s 18th and 55th sonnet’s are full and complete examples of poetry at its best, and, while studying Shakespeare’s form is very important, it is equally so to look at the content and even further deep to its true meanings. His techniques which have immortalized him over several centuries are displayed at their best while still capturing his goal of honoring his lover.

In Sonnet 18 “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” by William Shakespeare, a person can be immortal and lives in his verse. The persona first compares the beauty with a summer’s day and lastly concludes that his beloved beauty is everlasting while summer is too short. He thought that the beauty of his beloved one could be written as a history which can be saved forever. Death of the persona cannot ruin or destroy the immortality of love and beauty in Shakespeare’s poetry. It is because even though the persona may die one day, the poem is like that a person can never be dead since what he did, what he achieved can be stored as different wordings, as a poem. Also, the persona thinks that the beauty of a person is

The poem’s general theme is that what is written in poetry is eternal and never fades away, the poet is flattering his lover and states that her magnificence and beauty will never fade away , in addition to that, Sonnet 18 is a traditional poem due to its rhyme scheme and regular

In the Sonnet, Shakespeare says, “And every fair from fair sometimes declines,” which means that beauty doesn’t last a person forever. He says that everything loses beauty and is not eternal like a short summer. He then goes on to say this young man's “thy eternal summer

He loves this person and talks about how in nature's beauty it can fade but come back while this person is beautiful and when Shakespeare writes about his or her beauty it will never fade because poetry never dies. He not only uses the denotation of words but also the connotation of words such as “lovely” and “temperate”. Such as, “Thou art more lovely and more temperate. / ” (line 2). He uses words like these to truly express his affection with her because these in their dictionary meaning are extremely beautiful and the meanings of these words go beyond just their dictionary meaning such as the word temperate which holds a deep affectionate meaning. He begins this poem with the rhetorical question that sets the conceit that will be the main metaphor throughout this entire poem, a summer's day. Also he uses metaphors else where. One example is, “Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, / ” (line 5). The “eye of heaven” as used in line 5 is referring to the sun and sometimes during the summer it truly is too hot because the sun is just shining too bright. He also uses personification in this poem. For example, “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / ” (line 3). The words shake and darling are more commonly used with humans rather than nature, even though winds can have the power to shake things and buds can be called darling it is not as common as calling a person darling or saying a person can shake something. These metaphors and personifications are great help with concrete poetry, to help painting an image in the mind of the