Poems

Poems... I love poems ! Most. ^ ^

We read a Shakespeare poem in class yesterday -Sonnet 18- and it was totally amazing !!! I'd read it like twice before that, but I think that I didn't really get it's realy meaning so it was like 'Okaay...He's (the persona, as our teacher told us) talking about his beloved's beauty. What's so new?' But when teacher finish explaining it, we were all awed ! Like, W-o-w. LOL! He's sooooo amazing !!

Here it is -the Sonnet 18- if you want to read it. Hope that I'm not violating any copyright laws or anything and I hope 'Sorry!' helps? :)

Sonnet 18
by William 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:
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometimes declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Amazing, isn't it? Well, if you understand it, of course. The last 2 lines are the most powerful ones, that bring out the whole meaning of the poem. It's like 'as long as people can and still read this poem, her beauty lives...in their minds. So it's like forever . Amazing.

Oh, and guess what I was thinking when we read up to 'eternal beauty' ? I kept thinking of Edward and Bella. Ok, ok ok. I know. One word -obsessed. Maybe 2 - over-obsessed. LOL! ^ ^