英国文学课件shakespeare's s.ppt

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
“Shall pare Thee to a Summer’s Day” is the typical Elizabethan, also called Shakespearean or English , consisting of three quatrains with the rime scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF and a couplet with the rime GG. The speaker is addressing his poem.
Shall pare 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 plexion 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.
First quatrain
To pick up a topic (起)
Comparison: the beauty of a gentleman---- a summer’s day
Pythagoras (569 BC – 475) :
childhood-spring youth-summer
manhood-autumn winter-old age
there are no imperfecions in man, but there are in summer