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Explain these quotes would you?

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"Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May"

"Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines"

"Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade "

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  1. These quotes are from Shakespeare's sonnet 18, which is as follows:

    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 owest;

    Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

    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.

    The poem opens with a question addressed to the a beloved,  "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" The rest is actually making the comparison. The first two quotes you have is talking about the extremes that can exist in a summer's day. Summer's days tend toward extremes: they are shaken by "rough winds"; in them, the sun ("the eye of heaven") often shines "too hot," or too dim.In comparison the beloved is "more lovely and more temperate."  Summer is fleeting: its date is too short, and it leads to autumn. The final lines of the sonnet tells how the beloved differs from the summer in this respect. The beloved's beauty will last forever ("Thy eternal summer shall not fade...") and never die.


  2. °pazzo è chi si contrasta alle stelle°

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