WEEK 14: The Sonnets

This week's assignment allowed us to examine a a sonnet in three different exercises. I believe this week doesn't support the Renaissance image of women because during that era women weren't mention as wonderful beings like Shakespeare is creating them to be in the sonnet. In the Renaissance era weren't allowed to act.

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:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed,

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,

Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,

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.

Retrieved from: Professor Susan Quarrall's Scansion Assignment