Advanced Comp II, 4th Hour
Last Paper (Hot Damn!)
Shoe-Your-Mom
5/3/06
That Shakespeare Dude and His Gay Poetry Crap
Of all the literature that Shakespeare wrote, Sonnet #18 is his most famous piece, if not most famous piece in all English works, competing with �To be, or not to be� and �Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?� for the heavyweight title. This is one of the most romantic poems ever written, and it lacks the mush that most poems are full of. This is a great poem. The sonnet has a plethora of lush emotion without all the bullshit that you find in traditional romantic literature.
The speaker in the poem is a man in first-person professing his affections to a woman in the best way he can. This entire poem is a metaphor, comparing the lovely lady to a summer�s day. The lady must be absurdly hot, because the man in the poem talks of her as more than human. This type of hot even deserves a rhythm and rhyme scheme. It has an A, B, A, B rhyme scheme, and each line has ten syllables. This helps the flow, making the poem more pleasant to read.
For making this easier, let�s refer to the man in the poem as Dr. Rob Davison. Dr. Rob says, �Shall I compare thee to a summer�s day? /Thou art more lovely and more temperate� (1-2). In this, Dr. Rob calls the fantastic female better than a summer�s day, quite a lovely sight. The rough winds in the darling buds of May symbolize the problems in life that many people face, but can get through. �And summer�s lease hath all too short
a date�And every fair from fair sometimes declines,� represents the fact that life is short and that death is inevitable. The last three lines, �When in eternal lines to time thou growest: / So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee� are explaining the purpose of the poem, to preserve the woman�s beauty forever in the poem. It goes with the previous lines to say that while she will eventually die, her beauty will forever be magnificent. The poem will last forever, telling all about her, making everyone wonder, �Man, how hot is this chick?� This has evidently been working so far.
Dr. Rob later gives the gorgeous girl what is, in our opinion, the best pick-up line ever. Shakespeare writes, �Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,� (5). Dr. Rob is of course referring to his luscious lady being incredibly hott (That�s right, hot with two t�s). Also, eluding to the possibility that she is too good to be true. He later acknowledges this and says, �But thy eternal summer shall not fade/ nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; /nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, /when in eternal lines to time thou growest� (9-12). This is basically saying that he will always remember her beauty. Her fairest possession is her beauty, and she shall never lose it. Nothing, not even Death, can take that away from her. Everyone has their way of portraying love. Shakespeare gives his representation to this mix with Dr. Rob�s confession. This makes for a damn fine poem. It has a certain purity and passion, and makes it seem honest. That is why this is such a good poem.