♠Poetry: William Shakespeare: “Soneto XVIII” / “Sonnet XVIII”:
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♠William Shakespeare: “Soneto 18”:
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♠”¿Quién era el Mancebo Destinatario de 126 de los 154 Sonetos de Shakespeare”?
126 de los 154 sonetos están dirigidos a un joven, con frecuencia llamado “Fair Youth”.
Básicamente, existen dos teorías acerca de la identidad de Mr. W.H.: la que lo identifica con el joven y la que afirma que se trata de una persona distinta. Tres son los personajes a los que se dirigen la mayoría de los sonetos: un hermoso joven, un poeta rival y la dama del pelo negro; convencionalmente, cada uno de estos destinatarios son conocidos por los sobrenombres de, respectivamente, Fair Youth, The Rival Poet y Dark Lady.
Fair Youth es un joven sin nombre a quien se dirigen los sonetos que van del 1 al 126. El poeta escribe del joven con un lenguaje romántico, hecho que ha llevado a varios comentaristas a sugerir una relación homosexual, aunque otros lo interpretan como un amor platónico.
El Soneto 18 queda comprendido dentro de la lista de los poemas dedicados a Fair Youth.
Los primeros poemas de la colección no sugieren una relación personal estrecha; por el contrario, en ellos se recomiendan los beneficios del matrimonio y del tener hijos. Con el famoso soneto 18 (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”: “Debería compararte a un día de verano”), el tono cambia dramáticamente hacia un intimidad romántica.
El soneto 20 se lamenta explícitamente de que el joven no sea una mujer. La mayoría de los siguientes sonetos describen los altibajos de la relación, culminando con una relación entre el poeta y Dark Lady. La relación parece terminar cuandol Fair Youth sucumbe ante los encantos de la dama.
Ha habido varios intentos para identificar al destinatario de los sonetos.
El mecenas de Shakespeare durante un tiempo, Henry Wriothesley, tercer conde deSouthampton, es el candidato que más veces ha sido sugerido para su identificación, aunque el último mecenas de Shakespeare,William Herbert, tercer conde de Pembroke, ha sido recientemente señalado como otra posibilidad .
Ambas teorías están relacionadas con la dedicatoria de los sonetos a ‘Mr. W.H.’, “the only begetter of these ensuing sonnets” (el único inspirador de los siguientes sonetos): las iniciales se podrían aplicar a cualquiera de los dos condes.
La única edición de los sonetos de Shakespeare publicada en 1609, está dedicada a “Mr. W.H.” .
Aparece firmada al final con las iniciales ‘T.T.’ se corresponde con Thomas Thorpe, el editor de Shakespeare, aunque no hay certezas de ello.
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«ENGLISH SECTION»
♠William Shakespeare: “Sonnet 18”:
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♠William Shakespeare´s Sonnet 18:
“Summary & Analysis”:
The speaker opens the poem with a question addressed to the beloved: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”The sonnet’s opening question supposes a negative answer, even if the reasons for not comparing are based on comparisons. A “Summers day” is a day of summer not metonymically the season of summer. The youth, compared to a summer’s day, is more “louely,” both more ‘beautiful’ and more ‘loving,’ and is more “temperate:” “temperate” of weather is neither too hot nor too cold and of persons is not given to extremes or equitable. A summer’s day is subject to variety and the wind’s harshness (“Rough windes do shake the darling buds of Maie”), where “darling” (dear + ling) means ‘small’ and ‘precious.’
Summer’s days tend toward extremes: they are shaken by “rough winds”; in them, the sun (“the eye of heaven”) often shines “too hot,” and frequently, when masked by the clouds (“gold complexion dimm’d”), too coolly.
And summer is fleeting: its date is too short, and it leads to the withering of autumn, as “every fair from fair sometime declines.”
The poet’s argument now foresees a time when the youth will grow to time (“ when … to time thou grow’st”). ‘To grow to’ was a legal term occuring in the law of leases which should “Find no determination,” a ‘determination’ being where the lessee dies without heirs and possession of the estate reverts to the lessor.
The “immortall lines” are either those of the poet in which the youth is engraved or engrafted, which because immortal will forestall any ‘growing-to’ time. The “lines of life,” will prevent any ‘growing-to’ or being ceded to time.
The final quatrain of the sonnet tells how the beloved differs from the summer in that respect: his beauty will last forever (“Thy eternal summer shall not fade…”) and never die. In the couplet, the speaker explains how the beloved’s beauty will accomplish this feat, and not perish because it is preserved in the poem, which will last forever; it will live “as long as men can breathe or eyes can see.”
On the surface, the poem is simply a statement of praise about the beauty of the beloved; summer tends to unpleasant extremes of windiness and heat, but the beloved is always mild and temperate. Summer is incidentally personified as the “eye of heaven” with its “gold complexion”.
An important theme of the sonnet (as it is an important theme throughout much of the sequence) is the power of the speaker’s poem to defy time and last forever, carrying the beauty of the beloved down to future generations. The beloved’s “eternal summer” shall not fade precisely because it is embodied in the sonnet: “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,” the speaker writes in the couplet, “So long lives this, and this gives”.-
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♠Shakespeare´s Sonnet 18: “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer Day?”:
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♠All Sonnets By William Shakespeare:
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♠William Shakespeare: “Sonnets”:
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♠Audio Book:
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“Shakespeare´s Sonnets”: Complete Audiobook:
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♠Links Post:
http://shakespeareintranslation.com/2011/03/05/soneto-18-manuel-mujica-lainez/#.UloIO9IrdBk
http://pdcrodas.webs.ull.es/literatura/shakespeare_sonetos.htm
http://www.williamshakespeare-sonnets.com/sonnet-18
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1041
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonetos_(Shakespeare)
http://www.williamshakespeare-sonnets.com/sonnet-18
http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/shakesonnets/section2.rhtml
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♠”Thanks Christy Birmingham for the Mention of this Post on Your Blog”:
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https://twitter.com/aquileana/status/390192503959212032
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Oh, my favourite sonnet! Thank you.
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
Excellent Russell … Thanks for stopping by here…
Cheers!,
Aquileana 😉
BEAUTIFUL ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
what a MAN ……………….. what a heart on that man 🙂
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love how you compile all this beauty together
that, in itself is an amazing art form –
❤ C xo
Hello my dear Cat;
Thank you very much for your words… Great to hang out with you there today. Sehr lusting mein freund
And please let´s avoid making Pinterest collapse even when we know that we have the power to type at the speed of light … LOL…
Sending you much love! XOXO,
Aquileana 🙂
Dixit: Oops, we love your enthusiasm but we think you´ve been commenting too quickly!. You´ve hit one of the blocks we have in place to combat spam. Please, try again later.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL …………………………… ❤ ❤ ❤ we can (TYPE) faster than Pinterest can "understand " ………… 🙂 lol … I think most people just PIN and pin and pin ……:) so maybe pinterest was confused 🙂 LOL ❤ ❤ ❤ a glitch in their system ? xxxx
❤ Goodnight and sweet DREAMS XO
Love …………………………… butterflies, Chagall and Dreams xo
It’s interesting to think about who the Sonnets are written for… it is an unsolved puzzle, and we try to put together the pieces… Fair youth is a man or a woman?, and who is the particular person “WH”? You discuss it well and I enjoy “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” – great poem. His works are classic, timeless and supreme. Wonderful to see Mr Shakespeare in all of his glory here. xxoo
Christy;
Thanks for your insights here and for both, the mention of this post at Poetic Parfait and the retweet at Twitter.
Hugs;
Aquileana 😉
I loved sonnet 18, and thanks so much for explaining it in more simpler terms so even I can now fully understand it!
Leah, Oh how are you sweets?…
Many thanks for your comment and yes I do belive that the analysis above help us to understand better William Shakespeare.
Great to see you here and I´ve left you a comment on your latest post too;
Hugs!
Aquileana 😉
see i forgot the word “type ” lol xxxxx ❤ Tired ,,,,,LOL thanks for the laughs xxx see You soon xo C
I´ve added the missing word so as you has typed twice above here… Well then I guess Pinterest´s robots would be even more confussed…
LoL.. Such a Glitcher you are “Cat Hacker Gal”… 🙂
“you have hit one of the blocks we have in place to combat spam”>
That was excellent. I am still laughing at the message 😉
Love to you talk soon again , Nite XOXO;
Aquileana 😉
i think it’s from playing the piano – Typing too FAST …..:) lol
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TYPE TYPE TYPE
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your screenshots send me into MEGA GIGGLE WORLD XXXX
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Love xo C
Howdy CF;
Yes, I caught the image even when I have never “seriously” played the piano .
… Mega Giggle´s world is just waiting for you outside…
It is an awesome place full of yellow autumn leaves where leads straight to Musicland… Bon voyage (but If you do go there, please remember to come back) … 😉
Many hugs Cat…
Aquileana 🙂
Cat, ★ ★ ★
I have listened to Pearl Jam ´s song a while ago, and it is super cool.
Thanks for the gift honey. I absolutely adore it… And I have added it to the blog as a widget … Did you notice that?: It looks awesome !!!
Love to you & i wish you a great day too 😉
Aquileana 🙂
Thank you for the laughs and for fixing my day (You did that!)… You are a such bright star, hon,
Love to you;
Aquileana 🙂
hey ………
do You know this VERY PASSIONATE SONG ?
Pearl Jam ….. “The Fixer ”
RAW emotion ….. love it xxx
have a wonderful day xxx
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
❤ ❤ ❤ I saw !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the lovely widget xx glad you like xxx
❤ That song by Pearl Jam has been the song in my head allllll day – PASSION EDDIE VEDDER xxxx
it was a lovely day – but i got poured on by the rain …..:) 🙂 🙂
started off a gorgeous day 🙂
and then Buckets of water from the sky 🙂
sending you tons o love
a cozy night
and all that is Good IN THIS world xo
MEGA PEARL JAM MODE 🙂 LOL
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Pearl Jam – Black [HD]
Cat…
Hello & happy friday night…
I love “Black” by Pearl jam. I think this is one of their best songs. Thank You!
Sorry about the rain pouring over you….
Do you think it is okay if I email Ashton directly or It is better if i email you and you send it to him…
Tell me which way & when you think it is better (maybe on monday?) …All this regarding let´s say the five questions on your band (no more, brief stuff, because I will be needing some data, quite similar to the information provided in your video by the canadian lake)…
Well hon, wih you rest well tonight and have fuun tomorrow or go out tomorrow and sleep well tonight as you wish…
At least I have to pick just one day because I absolutely need to sleep the other one… LOL…
Sending you much love 🙂
Aquileana 😉
hello beauty 🙂 i subscribed to Your comments so here i am 🙂 xxx
I love the rain – but yesterday was hilarious ……..:) lol
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so much love to you xo xo xo xo xo
Friday night – and i am snuggled in for the night
my voice is tired xo but it was a great day xxx vocals are DONE 🙂
you can write ashton directly 🙂
he knows all about you – i told him today -miss argentina is an incredibly, rare woman , a woman that curates COOL 🙂 and a heart that just never stops ……..:) xxx so u can write him at ashton@morphproductions.com
🙂 🙂 🙂
i am having a glass of wine and going to watch yes a silly movie
a movie which is so cute “when in rome ” …. silly silly but i love it 🙂
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i am very excited for my audio book to come out – listened to it in full today and was very in shock – in a good way –
all those words – all the meanings xxx it all came out of my heart so fast 🙂
Enthralling feeling 🙂 and makes me think – ??????/
what will i write next 🙂 lol
the process of creativity indeed is divine xxxx
sending you LOVE LOVE LOVE
and here is the Goofy movie i am watching xxx
have a beautiful night xx and YES sleep is a wonderful thing xo xo xo xo
Love xxx C
Honey; Thanks for answering… That´s what I wanted to tell you via em@il you great that I caught up with you here, so I now know how to handle the issue now… Great!!!…
Silly movie?… Well: those are the best ones for fridays nights when you just want to switch off & laugh a little bit…
The name sound familiar to me… I will check out the trailer…
Sending much LOVE to you my dear friend…
Sleep tight & enjoy the movie (and the wine 😉 …) ;
Aquileana 🙂
❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Your heart xo xo xo xo xo xo
❤ xxx
ps- i will be pinning 2 morrow – I AM ADDICTED 🙂 LOL XO XO XO XO
love xo C
I have become addicted too… 🙂
Hugs & love right back at you; Cat,
Aquileana 🙂
healthy addiction xxxx !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
almost meditative – like making vision boards 🙂
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxoxxoxoxooxoxxoxoxoxoox C xo night night !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
❤ ❤ ❤ Dream beautiful dreams xo
Indeed, Cat… and as they say “What does not kill you, makes you stronger”…
Many hugs & much love… (and thanks for the lovely em2@l with the weekend wishes)…
You are really sweet Honey
(Obvioulsy; honey is really sweet!. LOL)…
XOXO, TTL;
Aquileana 🙂
❤ thank You xo its raining and cold here xxx
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this is a lovely contemplative mellow weekend xo
muah xo xo
C xo
it never stops raining there, Cat!!!… It also rains a lot here, hon… sending you much love and a bucket of rain (check it out below)
Aquileana 🙂
it stopped raining – saturday was totally BUCKETS
but sunday was BEYOUTIFULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL XO
happy monday xo
Awesome Cat, good to know you enjoyed your day yesterday… Wishing you a great monday too…
Much love!!!;
Aquileana 🙂
Hola,
Somos de la web SensaCine.com. No sé si nos conoces, somos un portal de cine y series con base de datos, cartelera, noticias, posters, tráilers, etc. Le hemos estado echando un vistazo a tu blog y vemos que te gusta el cine, y a veces escribes sobre él.
Te escribimos para invitarte a que nos visites, explores nuestra página y la uses como fuente de información. Estamos trabajando para ser la web de cine de referencia en España. Para ello, nos esforzamos en crear una comunidad de usuarios y colaboradores, a los que invitamos a preestrenos y ofrecemos concursos.
Sin que tengas que hacer nada, tú quedas incluido en nuestra lista de invitaciones a eventos. Cuando vayamos organizando algún preestreno o proyección especial, te enviaremos un correo para invitarte. No esperamos nada a cambio, sólo que nos envíes un correo al que contactarte a jperez at sensacine punto com, y que nos tengas en cuenta a la hora de informarte sobre cine o TV, y que si te sientes cómodo en nuestra web, la utilices como fuente de información y enlaces en tu blog. Obviamente, esto es algo opcional.
Esperamos que este comentario no suponga ninguna molestia, y que oigamos de ti en el futuro.
Gracias!
SensaCine
De acuerdo gente de SensaCine, visitaré vuestra página web…
Por el momento los he añadido en Twitter…
Gracias por la invitación;
Saludos, Aquileana 🙂
“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe read by Sir Christopher Lee (“The Lord of the Rings”, “Star Wars”; “Dracula”). Aquileana 🙂
So wonderfully well done, Aquileana. Shakespeare is on my “short list” of heroes from over the millennium! I have studied his life extensively and read most of his plays and sonnets, numerous times. He did so love life, beauty, and people (and words). People fascinated him, and what they did with and to each other. But mostly I think he loved his players. The actors he wrote for! Thank you for this brilliant article! Just loved it! 🙂 Penny
“Shakespeare is on my “short list” of heroes from over the millennium! “… Loved that, Penny… I also enjoyed your insights regarding Shakespeare´s poetry…
Yes I guess you are right… Shakespeare was one of the wisest men ever and such an unique great writer
I am really glad that you liked the post and fell humbled by your words…
So, thanks for stopping by here…
Many Hugs to you,
Aquileana 😉
Did you know, Aquileana, that Shakespeare used 31,534 words in his plays and sonnets and through statistical means it’s been determined that he knew another 35,000 words that he didn’t use. Therefore there is an estimate that Shakespeare knew approximately 66,534 words. How awesome is that! We use just a fraction of that amount today! Just an interesting factoid, my friend! 🙂
Howdy Penny,
Great information, really stunning… And it is also marvelous that you brought it here :)… Thanks for the interesting factoid, my dear friend 😉
((Ah; Just for the record and between you & me:
I have just commented in your blog… I made a mistake and left a comment in other blog:
a beautiful post of haikus & tankas; Whoops !!!…))
Sending you many hugs; Aquileana 🙂
That’s okay Aquileana, Bastet is an excellent writer, you couldn’t have left your comments at a better place than hers, my friend! 🙂 hugs received and returned!
Penny;
Yes it was a sort of “happy mistake” because it led me to Batet´s blog, which is a good one…
By the way I have also commented on a poem at your site today…
Congrats on your writing, my friend. You really have great posts…
Hugs & happy weekend ahead;
Aquileana 🙂
Very interesting!
Thank you very much puppy…
Cheers, Aquileana 🙂
A propósito de pulsiones en tuits desencadenadas de Alfredo Casero, comediante digno de Mucho Ruido y Pocas Nueces del isabelino William Shakespeare, bardo de Stratford-upon-Avon
Amigo Wachovsky…
Buen martes para vos… qué bueno que abriste cuenta en Twitter 🙂 … Empezá a agregar gente (podés tomar sugerencias de mis contactos)… Y básicamente hace retweet al principio para ganar seguidores… Aunque sé que quizás éste no sea tu propósito, verás que con 10 o 20 personas ya la cuenta se vuelve más dinámica…
Un abrazo y leo tu post a la brevedad,
Aquileana 😉
https://twitter.com/aquileana/status/392754319134441472
https://twitter.com/Wachovski/status/396455162828451840
hidrodinámica, pneumodinámica
Yo prefiero aquileanodinámica (nos hablamos en chirreos de tuits y en blogs, vernos allí no pues ciegos estamos el uno del otro por dichos medios).
Bueno, amigo es viernes… chill out… Vi tus tweets y me parece genial seguirlo a Lanata, dale estoy con vos… Y agregá más gente en Twitter, no podés tener dos contactos… va a pensar que sos un cyber K con perfil falso, acordate lo que digo, aunque dudo que nos conteste…
Abrazo, Aquileana 🙂
I agree with Cat–you really did an amazing job, compiling these Sonnets of “the Great S” kudos! = )
Howdy Aina… Thanks for your compliments sweets.
I will be reading your posts too… Great to see you here!!!…
Best wishes for you; Aquileana 🙂
Muy buen artículo y blog. Felicitaciones.
Muchas gracias por tu comentario, Juan.
Saludos, Aquileana 😉
One of Shakespeare´s best sonnets. Thanks !!!
You are welcome Greg…
I am glad to know that you have enjoyed Shakespeare´s sonnet here
Cheers, Aquileana 😉
For the speaker, love transcends nature in two ways:
The speaker begins by comparing the man’s beauty to summer, but soon the man becomes a force of nature himself. In the line, “thy eternal summer shall not fade,” the man suddenly embodies summer. As a perfect being, he becomes more powerful than the summer’s day to which he was being compared.
The poet’s love is so powerful that even death is unable to curtail it. The speaker’s love lives on for future generations to admire through the power of the written word – through the sonnet itself. The final couplet explains that the beloved’s “eternal summer” will continue as long as there are people alive to read this sonnet:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
The young man to whom the poem is addressed is the muse for Shakespeare’s first 126 sonnets. Although there is some debate about the correct ordering of the texts, the first 126 sonnets are thematically interlinked and demonstrate a progressive narrative. They tell of a romantic affair that becomes more passionate and intense with each sonnet.
In previous sonnets, the poet has been trying to convince the young man to settle down and have children, but in Sonnet 18 the speaker abandons this domesticity for the first time and accepts love’s all-consuming passion – a theme that is set to continue in the sonnets that follow
Thanks for the points to analysis & the link,
Cheers, Aquileana 🙂
Hey very nice TEXT!
Thanks for stopping by here, Hugo,
Cheers, Aquileana 🙂
Fair Youth es un joven sin nombre a quien se dirigen los sonetos que van del 1 al 126. El poeta escribe del joven con un lenguaje romántico, hecho que ha llevado a varios comentaristas a sugerir una relación homosexual, aunque otros lo interpretan como un amor platónico.
Gracias por destacar el párrafo sobre Fair Youth,
Supongo entonces que habrá sido de tu interés.
Aquileana 😉
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Very interesting.
Thanks… I much appreciate it ; CGJ; Aquileana 🙂
That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang: In me thou see’st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death’s second self that seals up all in rest: In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire That on the ashes of his youth doth lie As the death-bed whereon it must expire, Consumed with that which it was nourished by: This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
Cheers Becky, Thanks for stopping by…
Aquileana 😉
Excelente post Aquileana … Feliz año nuevo para vos y espero leerte mucho en el próximo año.
Muchísimas gracias Juan… Un cordial saludo y lo mejor para el año próximo,
Aquileana 😉
Wonderful post.
“Shakespearean Insults” via @JeriWB . Aquileana 😉
https://twitter.com/JeriWB/status/458286102877839361
https://twitter.com/aquileana/status/458324764293996544
Thanks @wordsinthelight for sharing this post at Twitter,
Aquileana 🙂
https://twitter.com/wordsinthelight/status/471408733378342912
Great explanation of Sonnet 18, Aquileana 😀
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