{"id":19252,"date":"2013-03-05T06:30:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T17:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=19252"},"modified":"2013-03-03T21:38:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T08:38:53","slug":"tuesday-poem-shall-i-compare-thee-to-a-summers-day-by-william-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/03\/05\/tuesday-poem-shall-i-compare-thee-to-a-summers-day-by-william-shakespeare\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem: “Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day?” by William Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shall I compare thee to a Summer\u2019s day?
\nThou art more lovely and more temperate:
\nRough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
\nAnd Summer\u2019s lease hath all too short a date:
\nSometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
\nAnd often is his gold complexion dimm\u2019d;
\nAnd every fair from fair some-time declines,
\nBy chance or nature\u2019s changing course untrimm\u2019d;
\nBut thy eternal Summer shall not fade
\nNor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
\nNor shall Death brag thou wandr\u2019st in his shade,
\nWhen in eternal lines to time thou growest:
\n……<\/span>S<\/span>o long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
\n ……<\/span>So long lives this and this gives life to thee.<\/p>\n

by William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

This week I’m continuing my Tuesday Poem<\/a> theme of poems on a theme of summer,\u00a0 or Kiwi-ness, or a Kiwi summer. In this case, there is no Kiwi-ness, but there is definitely summer in one of the Bard of Avon’s more well-known sonnets.<\/p>\n

Something that struck me as I was considering various summer poems for this week’s Tuesday slot, was how straightforward the language in this sonnet is, compared to many far more ornate offerings from poets of the intervening centuries.<\/p>\n

With a few of the more archaic spellings smoothed out, it remains a very accessible, as well as poetically accomplished, poem today And then, dear readers, there’s the richness,\u00a0 fluidity, wit, and beauty of the language; altogether — genius.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>To read the featured poem on the Tuesday Poem Hub<\/strong>\u2014and link to other Tuesday Poets posting around NZ and the world\u2014either click here<\/strong><\/a> or on the Quill icon in the sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shall I compare thee to a Summer\u2019s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And Summer\u2019s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm\u2019d; And every fair from fair some-time declines, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19252"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19262,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19252\/revisions\/19262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}