Task,Read the following poems and find out the major ideas expressed in them,
Sonnet 18 by 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 dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest,
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this,and this gives life to thee. Poem Appreciation
1,Determine whether the following poems are an English sonnet or an Italian sonnet.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach,when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday’s
Most quiet need,by sun and by candlelight.
I love thee freely,as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely,as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs,and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints – I love thee with the breath,
Smiles,tears,of all my life!– and,if god choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away,
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide,and made my pains his prey,
Vain man,said she,that doest in vain assay
A mortal thing so to immortalize,
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eek my name be wiped out likewise,
Not so (quoth I),let baser things devise
To die in dust,but you shall live by fame,
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name,
Where whenas Death shall all the world subdue,
Out love shall live,and later life renew.
2,Appreciate the following poems.
Sonnet 116
—by Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments,Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove,
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark (三桅帆船),
Whose worth's unknown,although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool,though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come,
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom,
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ,nor no man ever loved,
The Bargain
-- Sir Philip Sidney
My true love hath my heart,and I have his,
By just exchange one for another given,
I hold his dear,and mine he cannot miss,
There never was a better bargain driven,
My true love hath my heart,and I have his,
His heart in me keeps him and me in one,
My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides,
He loves my heart,for once it was his own,
I cherish his because in me it bides,
My true love hath my heart,and I have his.
Song,to Celia
--by Ben Jonson
Drink to me,only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine ;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine.
The thirst,that from the soul doth rise,
Doth ask a drink divine,
But might I of Jove's nectar sup (god’s wine),
I would not change for thine.
I sent thee late a rosy wreath,
Not so much honoring thee,
As giving it a hope,that there
It could not wither'd be.
But thou thereon didst only breathe,
And sent'st it back to me,
Since when it grows,and smells,I swear,
Not of itself,but thee. Go and Catch a Falling Star -- by John Donne
Go and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me where all past years are,
Or who cleft the Devil’s foot,
Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
Or to keep off envy’s stinging,
And find
What wind
Serves to advance an honest mind.
If thou be’st born to strange sights,
Things invisible to see,
Ride ten thousand days and nights,
Till age snow white hairs on thee;
Thou,when thou return’st,wilt tell me
All strange wonders that befell thee,
And swear
No where
Lives a woman true,and fair.
If thou find’st one,let me know,
Such a pilgrimage were sweet;
Yet do not,I would not go,
Though at next door we might meet:
Though she were true,when you met her,
And last,till you write your letter,
Yet she
Will be
False,ere I come,to two or three.
Compare Sidney and Shakespeare’s poems with that of Donne,what is the difference in central idea?
Sonnet 18 by 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 dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest,
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this,and this gives life to thee. Poem Appreciation
1,Determine whether the following poems are an English sonnet or an Italian sonnet.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach,when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday’s
Most quiet need,by sun and by candlelight.
I love thee freely,as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely,as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs,and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints – I love thee with the breath,
Smiles,tears,of all my life!– and,if god choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away,
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide,and made my pains his prey,
Vain man,said she,that doest in vain assay
A mortal thing so to immortalize,
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eek my name be wiped out likewise,
Not so (quoth I),let baser things devise
To die in dust,but you shall live by fame,
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name,
Where whenas Death shall all the world subdue,
Out love shall live,and later life renew.
2,Appreciate the following poems.
Sonnet 116
—by Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments,Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove,
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark (三桅帆船),
Whose worth's unknown,although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool,though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come,
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom,
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ,nor no man ever loved,
The Bargain
-- Sir Philip Sidney
My true love hath my heart,and I have his,
By just exchange one for another given,
I hold his dear,and mine he cannot miss,
There never was a better bargain driven,
My true love hath my heart,and I have his,
His heart in me keeps him and me in one,
My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides,
He loves my heart,for once it was his own,
I cherish his because in me it bides,
My true love hath my heart,and I have his.
Song,to Celia
--by Ben Jonson
Drink to me,only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine ;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine.
The thirst,that from the soul doth rise,
Doth ask a drink divine,
But might I of Jove's nectar sup (god’s wine),
I would not change for thine.
I sent thee late a rosy wreath,
Not so much honoring thee,
As giving it a hope,that there
It could not wither'd be.
But thou thereon didst only breathe,
And sent'st it back to me,
Since when it grows,and smells,I swear,
Not of itself,but thee. Go and Catch a Falling Star -- by John Donne
Go and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me where all past years are,
Or who cleft the Devil’s foot,
Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
Or to keep off envy’s stinging,
And find
What wind
Serves to advance an honest mind.
If thou be’st born to strange sights,
Things invisible to see,
Ride ten thousand days and nights,
Till age snow white hairs on thee;
Thou,when thou return’st,wilt tell me
All strange wonders that befell thee,
And swear
No where
Lives a woman true,and fair.
If thou find’st one,let me know,
Such a pilgrimage were sweet;
Yet do not,I would not go,
Though at next door we might meet:
Though she were true,when you met her,
And last,till you write your letter,
Yet she
Will be
False,ere I come,to two or three.
Compare Sidney and Shakespeare’s poems with that of Donne,what is the difference in central idea?
