Shall I compare thee to a summer's day (Sonnet 18) | Top grade analysis
Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, which begins with the line 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?', is probably one of the Bard's most famous - and most misunderstood - poems. In this video, I explain why the sonnet, despite being one of the most celebrated love poems of all time, may not, in fact, be about romantic love - at all. This analysis covers rhyme scheme, motif, symbolism, personification, imagery and other literary techniques that will be useful for anyone who's studying the sonnet. TIMESTAMPS: 01:58 - Observation #1: Rhyme scheme 03:54 - Observation #2: The divine & the human 06:45 - Observation #3: The final couplet Background on Shakespeare's Sonnets: https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/article... 💯 BUY MY POETRY 101 GUIDE: https://buy.stripe.com/aEU8zY3NqdAw1i... 👉 CHECK OUT MY POETRY PLAYLIST: • POETRY GUIDE 💌 JOIN MY MAILING LIST for monthly digests of all the good stuff I write and create for English Lit students: https://bit.ly/3l0bYHC 💫 FOLLOW MY INSTAGRAM to DM me with questions: https://bit.ly/393zRvg Email me at [email protected]
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