Sunday, July 10, 2011

Sonnet 1




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,
Thyself 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, makest waste in niggarding.
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.

It's shakespeare's..I don't know why lately,i have been trying to love shakespeare..
at first,i saw shakespeare words' declared in "i love you bethcooper" movie..from that moment i release that i need to read and learn all about shakespeare.I also read some fiction book that tell about shakespare's immortality,and live till now..

I felt really inconvenient in the beginning of understanding shakespeares'.He used many difficult and uncommon word,even the extinct one..lol :)

this is some analysist of mine,row by row... :) (correct me if i wrong)

1.from fairest creatures we desire increase..

fairest creatures
means all the (most) beautiful creature.fairest,sometimes people think the woird "fair" means honest etc,but the word "fair" also has a point as beautiful,magical,lightly..that's why "fairy" means something magical and beautiful..
and it also,developed to word fairytale (a fiction tale that usually tell about good and evil,witch and wizard etc)

increase
it can be means as offspring or child..
So,in the first row it also means: every beautiful creature must want a child (offspring)

2.That thereby beauty's rose might never die..

Beauty's rose= something beauty,sometimes it assumed as the beauty of woman..
That's why that beauty will never die..(the beauty will stay forever)

3.But as the riper should by time decease.

Ripper=someone old..

But,when we're old,the beauty will slowly disappear by time

4.His tender heir might bear his memory

tender=young..

The heir,the young one bearing may has his memory...

5.But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes

contracted to... eyes means in love with your self..

but you,fall in love with your self.


6.Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel


burn with love for yourself

7.Making a famine where abundance lies

famine . . . lies: depleting your own abundant beauty

8.
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel

You are your own worst enemy

9.
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament

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