Sonnets
Hey Guys!
Mrs. McLeay showed us one of Shakespear’s sonnets.
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 dimm’d,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimm’d:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st 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.
I think that Shakespear is comparing someone he loves to something else that is beautiful. He tells them how much better they are than a summer’s day. Personally, I think he really liked whoever he was writing about. I think he then say that the person he’s referring to won’t ‘fade’ from his mind.
We also had to write our own sonnets. This is one of the most depressing things I have ever written.
A Perfect Day
The sun didn’t come into the darkened room.
Outside there is sun, inside there is rain.
The mossy green walls close in like a tomb.
I wonder if I’ll ever smile again.
I want a perfect day. They’re hard to find.
Where I can disappear, where I can hide.
We’ll jump in puddles and get our socks wet.
We’ll bake choc’late cakes with butter and cream.
We’ll share memories we’ll never forget.
Hot choc’late and tea on a rainy day.
A cry of pain shatters my perfect dream.
I’m cold inside. I am filled with dismay.
The middle part is happy…well, not really. The person in the poem is more or less in denial. It’s arguably happy.
Until next time…Farewell!
Keshia. 
September 15th, 2006 at 12:28 am
WRITE BACK KASHY.
I write to u so write back to me its not fair. U make me cry.
Love u sexy legs from shannon and lanni
September 15th, 2006 at 12:31 am
I did write back to your other responses. I’m sorry if I
took a while.
What did you think of my post?
September 22nd, 2006 at 10:26 am
Nice sonneet!! I think it means while other people have fun outside where everything is all happy,the person stuck inside is depressed, but also wants to be outside,happy. Well, that’s my interpretation of that. I’m sorry if I didn’t get the right meaning of it.
From, Derek
P.S. I’m from Canada! Check out my blog http://www.dereksblog.learnerblogs.org!!
October 1st, 2006 at 3:27 am
Ooo…Canada! Seeing as it is Spring down here in Australia is it cold there? You’re right
about the poem. I think poems are really open to interpretation. I doesn’t matter what I
thought it should be about, it’s what you thought of it.
Yay! My first reply from someone who is not in my school!
Thanks Derek…going over to your blog now…
October 1st, 2006 at 3:54 am
Err…Derek? Either my computer/glasses stuffed up or your blog is empty. I’d check it out but there’s nothing in there.
October 10th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
do u like Shackspear?
October 27th, 2006 at 12:14 am
Shakespear? Hmm…I haven’t really read much of his stuff. I usually prefer reading more recent
literature but I like that sonnet.