2. INTRODUCTION
PARTICIPANTS NAME
• AFREEN
• SABA
• AMNA
• SANA
PRESENTATION TOPIC
• INTRODUCTION OF A POEM AND WRITER
• THEMATIC ANALYSIS
• STYLISTIC ANALYSIS
• CRITICAL ANALYSIS +CONCLUSION
3. INTRODUCTION OF A POET
• THE POEM SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO THE SUMMER DAY IS WRITTEN BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE .
• WHO HAD A GREAT CONTRIBUTION IN ENGLISH LITERATURE. HE WAS BORN ON APRIL 1564 IN ENGLAND.
• HE IS A FAMOUS ENGLISH POET AND DRAMIST.HE WROTE SONNETS, TRAGEDIES, COMEDIES, AND
HISTORICAL PLAYS. MOST OF HIS NOTED WORKS ARE MACBETH, HAMLET,OTHELLO, AND SO ON.
• HE PRODUCED MOST OF HIS NOTED WORK IN BETWEEN 1589 AND 1613.LAS PHAS OF LIFE HE ALSO
WROTE TRAGICOMEDIES AND COLLABORATE WITH OTHER PLAYWRIGHT.
4. INTRODUCTION OF A POEM
• THE POEM " SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO THE SUMMER'S DAY" IS BASICALLY A SONNET ONE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S
SONNET.
• IN THIS THE SPEAKER OPENS A POEM WITH A QUESTION THAT ADDRESSED HIS BELOVED, " SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO THE
SUMMER DAY? " HE WANTS TO COMPARE HISBELOVED TO SUMMER TO SHOW THAT HIS BELOVED IS MORE LOVELY AND
TEMPERED.
• HE SAYS THAT THE SUMMER S SOMETIMES TOO HOT AND SOMETIMES TO DIMMED DUE TO CLOUDS AND HE ADMIRES HIS
BELOVED INDIRECTLY BY SHOWING THE LIMITATIONS OF SUMMER DAYS.
• HE BELIEVES EVERYTHING CHANGES WITH TIME BUT HIS BELOVED IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE MUTABILITY. THE DEATH IS NOT
ABLE TO TAKE HIS BELOVED BECAUSE HIS BELOVED EXISTS IN HISPOEM.
• HE ALSO BELIEVES THE POEM HE COMPOSES WILL LIVE ON.
6. THEMATIC ANALYSIS
• A THEME IS A CENTRAL TOPIC, SUBJECT, OR MESSAGE WITHIN A NARRATIVE.
• SHAKESPEARE USES SONNET 18 TO PRAISE HIS BELOVED'S BEAUTY AND DESCRIBE ALL THE WAYS IN
WHICH THEIR BEAUTY IS PREFERABLE TO A SUMMER DAY.
• BEAUTY AND LOVE
• CRUELTY OF NATURE
• INEVITABILITY OF DEATH
• POETRY AS A SOURCE OF IMMORTALITY
7. BEAUTY AND LOVE
• THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE POEM, THE SPEAKER TALKS ABOUT THE BEAUTY OF HIS BELOVED. HE ADMIRES THE
BEAUTY OF HIS BELOVED IN DIFFERENT WAYS THROUGHOUT THE THREE QUATRAINS. HE STARTS BY ASKING HIS
BELOVED WHETHER HE SHOULD COMPARE HIM WITH A SUMMER DAY OR NOT.
• THE SPEAKER FURTHERS HIS ADMIRATION BY JUXTAPOSING HIS BELOVED’S BEAUTY WITH THE BEAUTY OF
OTHER MORTAL THINGS. HE SAYS THAT SUMMER IS TOO SHORT AND FADES AWAY INTO AUTUMN. SIMILARLY,
ALL THE OTHER THINGS IN THE WORLD ARE GOING TO LOSE THEIR CHARM. THEY ARE EITHER GOING TO FACE
SOME ACCIDENT OR FALL INTO THE ARMS OF THE INEVITABLE DEATH.
• THIS ADMIRATION OF THE BELOVED’S BEAUTY IS ENHANCED IN THE POEM BY THE USE OF SUPERIOR
METAPHORS. THE SPEAKER USES METAPHOR LIKE “EYE OF HEAVEN” IN COMPARISON WITH HIS BELOVED
BEAUTY TO SHOW THAT HIS BELOVED’S BEAUTY IS NOT AN ORDINARY THING.
8. CRUELTY OF NATURE
• NATURE IS DEPICTED AS A HARSH AND CRUEL ANTAGONIST IN THIS POEM.THE SPEAKER SAYS THAT THE
HARSH WINDS SHAKE THE DARLING BUDS DURING MAY. THIS DEPICTS THATELEMENTS OF NATURE ARE
ALWAYS BENT UPON DAMAGING THE BEAUTIFUL OBJECTS IN THE WORLD. MOREOVER, THE TWO
EXTREMES OF SUNSHINE DURING SUMMER DEPRIVE THE HUMANS OF THE PLEASANT WEATHER. IT IS THE
WORKING OF THE CRUEL NATURE THAT DOES NOT LET HUMANS HAVE FUN INTHIS
9. INEVITABILITY OF DEATH
• THE POEM HIGHLIGHTS THE IDEA THAT NO ONE CAN ESCAPE DEATH. EVERYONE, NO MATTER HOW
POWERFUL THEY ARE, IS GOING TO FALL INTO THIS PIT CALLED GRAVE.THIS IDEA IS FIRST DEVELOPED IN
THE POEM BY THE DESCRIPTION OF THE SHORT-LIVED SUMMER. THE SPEAKER SAYS THAT SUMMER HAS A
VERY SHORT SPAN OF TIME AND WILL SOON END. THIS IDEA IS THEN DEVELOPED, AND THE SPEAKER
MAINTAINS THAT DEATH SERVES AS THE FULL STOP FOR EVERY ENTITY INTHE WORLD. EVERY BEAUTIFUL
THING CEASES TO EXIST AND TURNS INTO DUST ONCE THE TIME OF DEATHARRIVES. THE SPEAKER,
HOWEVER, PROMISES HIS BELOVED TO PROTECT HIM FROM SUCH A FUTUREBY IMMORTALIZING HIM IN
HIS POETRY
10. POETRY AS A SOURCE OF IMMORTALITY
• IN THE LAST COUPLET OF THE POEM, THE SPEAKER TELLS HIS BELOVED ABOUT HIS SOURCE OF ACHIEVING
IMMORTALITY. HE TELLS HIM THAT HE HAS IMMORTALIZED HIM BY WRITING ABOUT HIS BEAUTY IN HIS
POETRY. HE IS SURE THAT PEOPLE WILL READ HIS POETRY EVEN WHEN THEY ARE LONG GONE FROM THIS
WORLD. WHEN THEY READ HIS POETRY, THEY WILL APPRECIATE HIS BELOVED’S BEAUTY. IN THIS WAY, HIS
BELOVED WILL REMAIN IMMORTAL.
11.
12. POETIC DEVICS AND WRITING STYLE
• POETIC DEVICS: POETIC DEVICES IS A FORM OF LITERACY . DEVICES WHICH IS USED IN POETRY AND
POEM . THEY ARE ESSENTIAL
• RHETORICAL QUESTION
• IMAGERY
• ALLITERATION
• PERSONIFICATION
• RHYME SCHEME
13. RHETORICAL QUESTION
• A QUESTION ASKED IN ORDER TO CREATE A DRAMATIC EFFECT OR TO MAKEA POINT RATHER THAN TO GET
AN ANSWER.
• IN THE POEM:
SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMERS DAY?
“IN THIS LINE THE POET IS ASKING A QUESTION BUT NOT FOR GETTING AN ANSWER , JUST FOR MAKING A
DRAMATIC EFFECT.
14. IMAGERY
•IMAGERY USED TO MAKE READERS PRECIOUS THINGS
WITH THE USE OF THEIR FIVE SENSE.
“ROUGH WIND DO SHAKE THE DARLING BUDS OF MAY”
16. ALLITERATION
• ALLITERATION: ALLITERATION IS THE REPETITION OF CONSONANT SOUNDSIN THE INITIALS OF TWO
SUCCESSIVE WORDS SUCH AS THE SOUND OF /L/ IN “SO LONG LIVES THIS” AND /T/ SOUND IN “TO TIME
THOU GROW’ST.
“ AND EVERY FAIR FROM FAIR
SOME TIME DECLINE”
THE SOUND USE OF F
17. RHYMING SCHEME
THE ORDERED PATTERN OF RHYMES AT THE ENDS OF THE LINES OF A POEM OR VERSE.
IN SONNET 18 WILL AM SHAKE SPARE USE TRADITIONAL RHYMING SCHEME OF SHAKESPEAREAN SONNETS.
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
18.
19. CRITICAL ANALYSIS
• WRITTEN BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ,MOST LIKELY BETWEEN WRITTEN BETWEEN 1590S.
• POEM CONSIST ON 14 LINES , THEY ARE BROKEN INTO 3 STANZAS OF A FOUR LINES CALLED QUATRAINS AND
FINISH WITH TWO LINES STANZA CALLED COUPLET.
• TRADITIONAL RHYMING SCHEME ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
• ELEMENTS OF CLASSIC SONNET. STRAIGHT FORWARD LANGUAGE/AND INTENT.
• USE OF POETIC DEVICES AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE :SMILE ,METAPHOR,PERSONIFICATION, IMAGERY ETC.
• THEME OF STABILITY OF LOVE, IMMORTAL BEAUTY, MAN AS COMPARED WITH NATURE.
20. EXPLANATION
• BEGINS THE POEM WITH OPENING QUESTION
“SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMERS DAY?”
FIRST STANZA
• First stanza poet is confused whether he should compare or not after listing negative qualitieslike not long
lasting, harsh.
• His beloved have balance personality.
• More mild and beautiful.
21. SECOND STANZA
In seconds stanza he is further explaining :
With the help of personification of nature that
Some time summers days become more harsh and
Some time to dimmed due to cloudy. Indirectly parsing ,
But also expressing regrets that every beauty fades and nothing
can change.
22. THIRD STANZA
Poet quickly moved back to the point and start
directly parsing his beloved and say but nothing can
change you beauty not even death because your
beauty is save in my poetry.
23. FINAL COUPLET
•IN THE FINAL COUPLET : HE SAYS THAT YOUR BEAUTY WILL NEVER
END BECAUSE IT IS WRITTEN IN MY SONNET AS LONG AS PEOPLE
BREATH OR SEE IN THE WORLD YOUR BEAUTY WILL LIVE
24. CONCLUSION
• IN THIS POEM, THE POET COMPARING HIS BELOVED TO THE SUMMER'S DAY. AND IN EVERY WAY HE IS
TRYING TO MAKE HIS BELOVED MORE BEAUTIFUL AND SHOWING ITS EVER LASTING BEAUTY. HE KNOW
THAT EVERY BEAUTY SHOULD BE FADE AND NO ONE CAN CHANGE IT NEITHER LUCK OR A NATURE. BUT IN
THE LAST HE IS ONLY COMPARING WITH EVERLASTING BEAUTY TO HIS TEXT AND SAY THAT YOUR BEAUTY
CAN ONLY END AND WHEN THE POEM CEASES TO EXIT.
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BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF
BEHOLDER
BY JOHN KEATS
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