...Sonnet 18 Shakespeare In "Sonnet 18" by Shakespeare the speaker poses a question to himself as to how to best immortalize his beloved subject. At first he compares his love to a summer's day, which the speaker sees as most beautiful. However, he finds the metaphor imperfect so he decides through internal debate and poetic expression that the best way to immortalize his love is through his own poetry. This method eternalizes both his love for her and her beauty in written words. By exploring the contrast between the subject's beauty and a summer's day, the author proves that love can withstand the course of time. The line "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" (1) opens the speaker's debate with a comparison between his love and the season of summer; the author questions whether the beloved subject should be compared to a summer's day. In the consequent lines, the narrators begins to compare his subject to a "summer's day" and answer the question posed in line one, and right away makes the point that the subject is superior to summer, with the line "thou art more lovely and more temperate" (2). The faults of summer continue to be proven with phrases such as "rough winds" which describe summer's temporary nature. Unlike summer, "rough winds" do not shake the subject's beauty .The examples made regarding summer in the first quatrain show that summer's beauty does not last forever, it is merely a time of year that passes within a short period of time . Each subsequent...
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...Eternal Beauty In Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18”, the narrator employs an extended metaphor when comparing the addressee to a “summer’s day”. The metaphor is emphasized by the tone shift in line nine, and the comparison is finalized by a couplet that expands on the theme of immortality. The sonnet makes it clear that the individual’s beauty and vigor cannot be compared to commonplace nature and that the individual is something more than human. Sonnet 18 is part of the group of sonnets that is written to address men. In this particular one, Shakespeare compares the man’s beauty to that of nature, particularly a day in the summer. The first quatrain begins the extended metaphor by implying that the man being addressed has all the qualities of a summer’s day. This immediately associates the man with the sun and all of its qualities: he is strong, bright, and full of energy. However, by writing: “Though art more lovely and more temperate,” in line two, Shakespeare illustrates the fact that although the best thing nature has to offer, a summer’s day is far from perfect. The first shift happens in line three; the narrator stops talking about the man and begins pointing out the imperfections of summer. He employs vivid imagery to argue that summer’s beauty is hurt by “rough winds” and its “lease hath all too short a date,” (4). Shakespeare also adds that summer may sometimes be too hot, and other times its “gold complexion [is] dimm’d,” (5). This emphasizes the qualities of the man; he...
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...Sonnet 18 Sonnet 18 is the best known and most well-loved of all 154 sonnets. It is also one of the most straightforward in language and intent. The stability of love and its power to immortalize the subject of the poet's verse is the theme. SUMMARY The poet starts the praise of the beloved without ostentation, but he slowly builds the image of his friend into that of a perfect being. The speaker opens the poem with a question addressed to the beloved: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” The next eleven lines are devoted to such a comparison the beloved is first compared to summer in the octave, but, at the start of the third quatrain (9), she is summer, and thus, she is metamorphosed into the standard by which true beauty can and should be judged. 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 as poet's only answer to such profound joy and beauty is to ensure that his friend be forever in human memory, saved from the oblivion that accompanies death. He achieves this through his verse, believing that, as history writes itself, his friend will become one with time. The final couplet reaffirms the poet's hope that as long as there is breath in mankind, his poetry too will live on, and ensure the immortality of his muse. Commentary On the surface, the poem is simply a statement of praise about the beauty of the beloved; summer tends to...
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...of the poem regains immortality. The difference between nature which is a power on its own and literature is that while nature doesn't rely on anything external to sustain/unsustain immortality, literature relays on an external factor, the readers/ auditors, to give the subject matter as well as the poet immortality. In this paper I will demonstrate how poets reinforce my claim through their poems. Sonnet 75 by Edmund Spenser as well as sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare "eternal lines" (l.9) employs the theme of immortality. The poet tries to achieve immortality for his lover. In the sonnets, both personas state that their lover will be immortal" So long lives this, and this gives life to thee" (l.14). Both sonnets convey a message that even though the poet writes the sonnet the subject matter immortality is in the hands of external force; the readers/ auditors "so long as men can breath or eyes can see"(l.13). Both personas in the sonnets argue that the poet's creative ability comes amounts to writing the sonnet but unable to make the sonnet immortal. By reading the sonnet and therefore...
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...English: poem analysis Compare in detail two or three poems by different poets, discussing the structure and form of each work. Give some idea of the importance of the structure in evaluating the meaning and impact of the poems. In the poem Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare and Mending Wall by Robert Frost the structure and form of the poems show the significant role on evaluating and highlighting the meaning of time. The two poems are formed completely different in the way the techniques and structure were used but they convey the similar hidden meaning. As one of the characteristic of the usual Shakespearean Sonnets, Sonnet 18 formed as fourteen lines of iambic pentameter with a varied rhyme scheme. It contains 3 quatrains which state the problem leading to the couplet which expresses the theme of the sonnet and presents the solution. Unlike other Shakespearean sonnets, this sonnet is quite easier and understandable than other sonnets because the way he structured the sonnet is simple. At the first glance, the poem simply gives us the idea that how Shakespeare describes his lover by comparing ‘thee’ as summer’s day. Basically, the first quatrain shows the features of summer that followed by the first line of the poem “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” After this line, the poet stated the features of summer until line 7. 7th line explains how the summer’s day beauty will fade away by the changing of time and the 8th line stated that thee’s eternal summer day...
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...SONNET 18 | PARAPHRASE | Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? | Shall I compare you to a summer's day? | Thou art more lovely and more temperate. | You are more beautiful and gentle. | Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, | Stormy winds will shake the May flowers, | And summer's lease hath all too short a date. | and summer lasts for too short of a time. | Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, | Sometimes the sun is too hot, | And often is his gold complexion dimm'd, | and many times it is overcast, | And every fair from fair sometime declines, | and everything beautiful eventually decays, | By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd. | either by some unforseen circumstance, or nature's course. | But thy eternal summer shall not fade | But your beauty will never fade | Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest, | or lose its inherent loveliness, | Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, | even Death will not be able to claim you, | When in eternal lines to time thou growest. | when in my eternal poetry you will grow. | So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, | As long as there are people who see and breathe, | So long lives this and this gives life to thee. | this will live and give you life. | SONNET 29 | PARAPHRASE | When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, | When I’ve fallen out of favor with fortune and men, | I all alone beweep my outcast state | All alone I weep over my position as a social outcast...
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...Sonnet 18 By: William Shakespeare Formalist criticism: “Sonnet 18” wrote by William Shakespeare, it is one of the most famous of his work and is believed by many to be the greatest love poems of all time. Formalist criticism is a critical approach use to analyze this poem. It is an approach to literature that focuses on the formal elements of a work, such as its language, structure, and tone. It also pays special attention to diction, irony, paradox, metaphor, and symbol. Every line consists of same interpretation, but different representation of poem because some said it is pertaining to the beauty of youth and other is to the beauty of nature. But still, its meaning is the same; it is referring to a beauty thru personification of a summer. Metaphor almost appeared in every line of the poem. For instance, “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May” means before summer, strong winds knock buds off of the flowering trees. This sonnet successfully conveys the beauty of Shakepeare’s love; he even compares his love to a summer’s day and concludes that their beauty is greater than that of summer and the sun, such as, “Thou art more lovely and more temperate” means Shakespeare believes his love is more desirable and has a more even temper than summer. This sonnet professed how beauty was significant to Shakespeare by successfully interpreting it through the season of summer. It consists of deep word but essential not only to the author, but also to the reader because of the beauty...
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...|Sonnet 18 | | | | | |by William Shakespeare | | |Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? |often as Death Rough shall too lines fair | |Thou art more lovely and more temperate: |or is his that and eye to life too | |Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, |can summer's shake sometime breathe, Sometime thee thou buds | |And summer's lease hath all too short a date: |summer's | |Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, |Nor do often compare in more eternal see, shade, wander'st I | |And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; |fade, or date: | |And every fair from fair sometime declines, |growest; thee. wander'st winds growest; | |By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd; |see, can nature's eternal lives more ...
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...Poetry analysis Shall I Comepare Thee (Sonnet 18) By William Shakespeare Before William Shakespeare died, he managed to write 154 sonnets Out of all 154 sonnets the most famous and well-known is Sonnet 18, which this paper is going to be about. Because the sonnets written by William Shakespeare, was so beloved, all of Shakespeare’s sonnet-heritage is being called Shakespearean sonnets. There are different indicators that, helps to define a sonnet. First of all ‘Shall I Comepare Thee’ consists of fourteen lines, where the eight first lines called the octave presents which aspects the poem will regard. The last six lines called the sestet gives a personal view of what the poem really is about. ‘Shall I Comepare Thee’ is divided by three quatrains followed by a couplet and has the traditional characteristic rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet: abab cdcd efef gg. The metrical aspect of sonnet 18 is that the poem got written in iambic form with one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. The sonnet has five feet in each line and therefore it is under pentameter. For example if the 2 first lines in Sonnet 18 should be divided into the rhythm of five in stressed and unstressed syllables it would look like this: The stressed syllables, is the ‘green’ ones and unstressed syllables is the ‘red’ ones. Shall I - compare - thee to - a sum - mer’s day? Thou art - more love - ly and - more tem - perate. Shakespeare starts the poem with the question...
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...Amoretti : Sonnet 75 This poem is written in beginning modern English. Edmund Spenser uses some dutch words in his poem, like strand (now: beach). Here we have somebody who writes the name of the person he loves on the beach, because he wants the world to know he's in love. It's not clever because when the tide comes, the waves will wash it away. In poetry they use metaphor. An example : “you are like a red rose”, a red rose is a metaphor for beauty. Line 1-2: ‘’One day I wrote her name upon the strand, but came the waves and washed it away.’’ The speaker and his love are at the beach (strand) and the speaker is in a romantic mood, because he writes her name in the sand. The waves wash the name away. Line 3: “Again I wrote it with a second hand,” The speaker writes the name again. Second hand is the same as again. The line needs to be complete and he had already used “again”. Line 4 : “But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.” Tides: the periodic variation in the surface level of oceans. The tides are a metaphor for life and death, often used by poets, because it´s one of the cententies of life. The tide is presented as a predator. His pains (efforts) are the prey of the waves. Death is also a predator, the tides are life and death. Line 5-6: ‘’Vain man, said she, that doest in vain assay, a mortel thing so to immortalize.’’ Vain has two meanings here, Vain (man) = you think too highly of yourself. Vain (assay) = useless (try). It´s useless...
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...SALES CONTRACT Whole Doc. No： Date： For Account of： Indent No： This contract is made by and between the Sellers and the Buyers；Whereby the Sellers agree to sell and the buyers agree to buy the undermentioned goods according to the terms and conditions stipulated below and overleaf： （1） Names of commodity （ies） and specification（s） （2） Quantity （3） Unit price （4） Amount TOTAL：__________% more or less allowed （5） Packing： （6） Port of Loading： （7） Port of Destination： （8） Shipping Marks： （9） Time of Shipment： Within ____________________days after receipt of L/C， allowing transhipment and partial shipment. （10） Terms of Payment： By 100% Confirmed， Irrevocable and Sight Letter of Credit to remain valid for negotiation in China until the 15th day after shipment. （11） Insurance： Covers all risks and warrisks only as per the Clauses of the People's Insurance Company of China for 110% of the invoice value. To be effected by the Buyer. （12） The Buyer shall establish the covering Letter of Credit before _________； failing which， the Seller reserves the right to rescind this Sales Contract without further notice， or to accept whole or any part of this Sales Contract， non-fulfilled by the Buyer， of to lodge claim for direct losses sustained， if any （13） Documents： The Sellers shall present to the negotiating bank，Clean On Board Bill of Lading， Invoice， Quality Certificate issued by the China Commodity Inspection Bureau or...
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...In "Sonnet 18" by Shakespeare the speaker poses a question to himself as to how to best immortalize his beloved subject. At first he compares his love to a summer's day, which the speaker sees as most beautiful. However, he finds the metaphor imperfect so he decides through internal debate and poetic expression that the best way to immortalize his love is through his own poetry. This method eternalizes both his love for her and her beauty in written words. By exploring the contrast between the subject's beauty and a summer's day, the author proves that love can withstand the course of time. The line "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" (1) opens the speaker's debate with a comparison between his love and the season of summer; the author questions whether the beloved subject should be compared to a summer's day. In the consequent lines, the narrators begins to compare his subject to a "summer's day" and answer the question posed in line one, and right away makes the point that the subject is superior to summer, with the line "thou art more lovely and more temperate" (2). The faults of summer continue to be proven with phrases such as "rough winds" which describe summer's temporary nature. Unlike summer, "rough winds" do not shake the subject's beauty .The examples made regarding summer in the first quatrain show that summer's beauty does not last forever, it is merely a time of year that passes within a short period of time . Each subsequent comparison between his lover...
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...The Problem in Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare Layla Mustapha ID – 308536978 British literature Natanela Elias 25.1.2015 The Problem in Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare The speaker discusses the idea of mortality and immortality by comparing between nature and his beloved and says that the latter is better than nature. This beloved is immortal while nature seasons like summer have a short span of time. However, the problem is that the speaker compares something which is according to him immortal with something mortal. How can his beloved who is flesh and blood become eternal? Anyway, the speaker says that he can equate his beloved to immortality when he writes about her, because when he does so, he immortalizes her and only then she becomes immortal. Then, the speaker can compare his beloved to nature as he ensures the continuity of his works after his death, and when people read his works they will revive his beloved. The speaker begins his poem by asking a rhetorical question whether he should compare his beloved to a summer day. Then he says that his beloved is more lovely and more tempered. According to what have said before, the speaker gives several reasons why summer is less beautiful than his beloved. Summer winds shake the buds that emerged in spring, it ends too quickly, and the sun can get too hot or can be obscured by clouds. Here we can see that summer have unpleasant things that make it imperfect. The way that he describes the short summer seems...
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...16.替换段落985-20-25-9至段落25-10，并链接转换到段落730-10-65-1，如下： 985-20-25-9 根据2009年更新的会计准则，替换段落985-20-25-9。 985-20-25-10 根据2009年更新的会计准则，替换段落985-20-25-10。 17.修正段落 985-20-55-13，并链接转换到段落730-10-65-1，如下： 985-20-55-13 会计主体准备购买软件并将其集成到另一个软件或硬件产品中。不论在购买时技术的可行性是否确定，所购买的用于销售、租用或者任何商业用途的电脑软件在取得时其成本应予以资本化 18. 替换段落985-20-55-14和它的相关标题，并链接转换到段落730-10-65-1，如下： 985-20-55-14 根据2009年更新的会计准则，替换段落985-20-25-14。 19.修正段落985-20-55-18，并链接转换到段落730-10-65-1，如下： 985-20-55-18 在技术可行性提升已被确认并副标题 730-10的规定入账之前，产品改良的成本被认为是研发的一部分。如果初始产品不再作商业用途，根据可变现净值测试和摊销规定，初始产品的任何未摊销成本应被归入改良成本中。如果初始产品同改良一起保留在市场上，初始产品的未摊销成本应该被在初始产品和改良之间分配。 20.修正段落985-350-25-1，并链接转换到段落730-10-65-1，如下： 985-350-25-1 段落985-20-25-3规定在技术可行性确定后生产产品发生的成本应予以资本化。段落985-20-25-8规定购买的软件将来作其他用途的其成本应予以资本化 对Topic350 的修正 修正段落350-30-35-7，并链接转换到段落730-10-65-1，如下： 350-30-35-7 无形资产不能在入账时被减记或冲销，除非它在该时期内受损。 22.修正段落350-30-35-17A，并链接转换到段落730-10-65-1，如下： 350-30-35-17A 在企业合并或者资产收购时用于研发活动的无形资产将被认为是不确定部分，直到相关研发工作完成或中止。在这段时间内那些被认为是不确定性的资产，他们不会被摊销但应根据后面的内容进行减值测试。一旦研发工作完成或中止，会计主体将以这部分的指导为基础决定资产的使用寿命。与段落360-10-35-49中的指导一致，通过公司合并取得的暂时被闲置的无形资产和被弃置的无形资产一样，不入账。 23. 修正段落350-30-50-1，并链接转换到段落730-10-65-1，如下： 350-30-50-1对于无形资产，不论是单独取得的或是作为资产组的一部分（在资产收购中取得或在企业合并中取得），所有下面的信息都应在入账时在财务报表附注中披露： a.以下所有是对于用于摊销的无形资产： 1. 被分配的总数和任何主要无形资产种类被分配的数量 2. 任何明显的残余价值的总量和主要无形资场种类残余价值的数量 3. 加权平均摊销期的总量和主要无形资产种类的加权平均摊销期 b. 对于没有被摊销的无形资产，被分配的总数和被分配到任何主要无形资产种类的数量 c. 在一笔交易中除了企业合并所取得的研发资产的数量 d. 按主要无形资产的种类，对于附着更新或扩展段落的资产，在下一个更新或扩展前的（包括显式和隐式）加权平均摊销期间。 除了商誉，如果合计取得的无形资产公允价值是值得注意的，信息也应在每一个重要的企业合并中或者在重要的非重要企业合并的集合中予以披露。 ...
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...Hi, Thank you for your e-mail. Please note that I will be out of office on 17th of December 2012 and will have limited access to e-mails. I will reply to your mail on the 18th upon my return to work. Sincerely regret the inconvenience caused. Thank You & Best Regards, Harsha Amarasinghe Hi, Thank you for your e-mail. Please note that I will be out of office on 17th of December 2012 and will have limited access to e-mails. I will reply to your mail on the 18th upon my return to work. Sincerely regret the inconvenience caused. Thank You & Best Regards, Harsha Amarasinghe Hi, Thank you for your e-mail. Please note that I will be out of office on 17th of December 2012 and will have limited access to e-mails. I will reply to your mail on the 18th upon my return to work. Sincerely regret the inconvenience caused. Thank You & Best Regards, Harsha Amarasinghe Hi, Thank you for your e-mail. Please note that I will be out of office on 17th of December 2012 and will have limited access to e-mails. I will reply to your mail on the 18th upon my return to work. Sincerely regret the inconvenience caused. Thank You & Best Regards, Harsha Amarasinghe Hi, Thank you for your e-mail. Please note that I will be out of office on 17th of December 2012 and will have limited access to e-mails. I will reply to your mail on the 18th upon my return to work. Sincerely regret the inconvenience caused. Thank You & Best Regards, Harsha...
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