William Shakespeare
Sonnet number 1 by William Shakespeare
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From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content,
And tender churl mak'st waste in niggarding:
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content,
And tender churl mak'st waste in niggarding:
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.
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This poem's style
This sonnet, written by William Shakespeare is a Shakespearean sonnet. It appears to be about a mean person at a glance, but I think there is more to it. It is also possible that the sonnet is a comment about culture back then, and how beauty and kindness were regarded highly and any negative or ugly person would have been looked down upon. Shakespeare utilized metaphors, "That art now the world's fresh ornament". No human is really an ornament. He also uses descriptive language, like when he said, "Thine own bright eyes". An interesting word I found in the sonnet is "niggarding". When looked it up on dictionary.com, it is defined in difficult words, but essentially, it means being stingy.
Our Modern version of Shakespeare's Sonnet number 1
We always want the beautiful animals more and more
It is impossible to think they would ever become ugly
But it will happen eventually, as everything must be no more
and we can always remember how they were once beautiful
because you have seen it with your own eyes.
keep the fire alive all alone
and make happiness will demise
being mean to yourself, and it you condone
and you are in the view of the world
Showing what is to come
and you yourself leave your beauty unfurled
You are stingy to the point of being numb
feel for other humans pity
or you will die alone in a city
It is impossible to think they would ever become ugly
But it will happen eventually, as everything must be no more
and we can always remember how they were once beautiful
because you have seen it with your own eyes.
keep the fire alive all alone
and make happiness will demise
being mean to yourself, and it you condone
and you are in the view of the world
Showing what is to come
and you yourself leave your beauty unfurled
You are stingy to the point of being numb
feel for other humans pity
or you will die alone in a city
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