Definition of Sonnet Shakespearean Sonnet: It can be divided into three stanzas, each rhymed differently, with a final, independently rhymed couplet that makes an effective unifying climax. The theme always resides in the last couplet. The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd, efef, GG. Shakespeare钬攁 humanist 2021/1/15 1 Shakespear’s semi-autobiography: 154 sonnets The sonnets describe the devotion of a person to a young man whose beauty and virtue he praises and to a mysterious and faithless Dark Lady with whom the poet is infatuated. The ensuing triangular situation, resulting from the attraction of the poet’s friend to the Dark Lady, is treated with passionate intensity and psychological insight. Shakespeare钬攁 humanist 2021/1/15 2 Appreciate Sonnet 18 (Page 118) Compare Sonnet 18 with Edmund Spenser’s One day I wrote Her Name upon the Strand to taste the spirit of Renaissance---a faith in the eternity of the poetry. Shakespeare钬攁 humanist 2021/1/15 3 When you are old 当你老了,白发苍苍,睡思昏沉, 在炉火旁打盹,请取下这部诗歌, 慢慢读,回想你过去眼神的柔和 回想它们过去的浓重的阴影; 多少人爱你年轻欢畅的时候 出于假意或真心地爱慕你的美貌, 只有一个人爱你那朝圣者的灵魂, 爱你老去的容颜的痛苦的皱纹。 Shakespeare钬攁 humanist 2021/1/15 4 躬身在红光闪耀的炉火旁, 凄然地低语,爱为何消逝, 在头顶的山上,它缓缓踱着步子, 将脸隐没在群星之中。 Shakespeare钬攁 humanist 2021/1/15 5 Compare sonnet 130 with Dante’s poem So winsome and so worthy seems to me my lady, when greets a passer-by, That every tongue can only babble shy and eager glances lose temerity 我的恋人如此娴雅如此端庄,当她向人行礼问候的时刻,总使人因舌头发颤而沉默,双眼也不敢正对她的目光。 Shakespeare钬攁 humanist 2021/1/15 6 Sweetly and dressed in all humility, away she walks from all she’s praised by, and truly seems a thing come from the sky to show on earth what miracles can be. 她走过,在一片赞美的中央,但她全身却透着谦逊温和,她似乎不是凡女,而来自天国,只为显示神迹才降临世上。 Shakespeare钬攁 humanist 2021/1/15 7 Appreciate Sonnet 130 in order to taste Shakespeare as a humanist. Shakespeare钬攁 humanist 2021/1/15 8 Shakespeare as a language master Apprec