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Gianluigi Salin Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Shakespeare sonnet 18 translation
HEllo,
I need to performa a transposition (translation) of Shakespeare sonnet 18 from old English to modern English.
"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 owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow rest.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee."
Tks
I need to performa a transposition (translation) of Shakespeare sonnet 18 from old English to modern English.
"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 owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow rest.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee."
Tks
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Gianluigi Salin I need to performa a transposition (translation) of Shakespeare sonnet 18 from old English to modern English. No one is preventing you. Go right ahead!
- Gianluigi Salin I need to performa a transposition (translation) of Shakespeare sonnet 18 from old English to modern English.
- No one is preventing you.
- Go right ahead!
- We don't do students' homework here.
- By the way, Shakespeare was born about 500 years after the Old English period in the history of the English language ended.
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Gianluigi SalinI need to performa a transposition (translation) of Shakespeare sonnet 18 from old English to modern English.No one is preventing you. Go right ahead! We don't do students' homework here. By the way, Shakespeare was born about 500 years after the Old English period in the history of the English language ended.
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We have already helped you with a major part of your homework on this poem, including a rather extensive discussion of a couple of the more tricky lines.
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A very loose paraphrase.
If I were to compare you to a day in summer, I'd say that you're more beautiful.
In the case of the summer, there are some disadvantages to consider — like wind, heat, and clouds —
and besides, everything starts looking worn-out as the season progresses.
In your case, however, that won't happen.
You'll be young and pretty forever —
be
If I were to compare you to a day in summer, I'd say that you're more beautiful.
In the case of the summer, there are some disadvantages to consider — like wind, heat, and clouds —
and besides, everything starts looking worn-out as the season progresses.
In your case, however, that won't happen.
You'll be young and pretty forever —
be
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