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ACTIVITAT_B_English_Group_3_C: William Shakespeare's Shall I Compare

Thee To A Summer's Day ?

Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?

By William Shakespeare

Exercise 1. Read while listening to the comments. Pay attention to pronunciation and

intonation. William Shakespeare's Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer Day?

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:

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So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this and this gives life to thee

Exercise 2. Read the translation of the poem into Spanish.

¿A un día de verano compararte?

De William Shakespeare

¿A un día de verano compararte?

Más hermosura y suavidad posees.

Tiembla el brote de mayo bajo el viento

y el estío no dura casi nada.

A veces demasiado brilla el ojo

solar y otras su tez de oro se apaga;

toda belleza alguna vez declina,

ajada por la suerte o por el tiempo.

Pero eterno será el verano tuyo.

 No perderás la gracia, ni la Muerte

se jactará de ensombrecer tus pasos

cuando crezcas en versos inmortales.

Vivirás mientras alguien vea y sientay esto pueda vivir y te dé vida.

Versión de Manuel Mujica Láinez ( http://amediavoz.com/shakespeare.htm )

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Exercise 3. Read the poem “Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day” by WilliamShakespeare again. Think about the author’s feelings on poetry and its “eternal” power.

Exercise 4. Have a look at the following presentation on William Shakespeare and hisimportance as one of the greatest writers in history.

Exercise 5. You can also have a look at the following trailers from films based on William

Shakespeare's plays:

● Romeo and Juliet

● Shakespeare in Love

● Ten Things I Hate About You

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Exercise 6. Now try to answer the following questions. You can help yourself wih the

translation into Spanish and/or Catalan. Remember to write the ideas in English.

1. Who is "thee"? Tu

2. Does this poem necessarily keep living so long as humans keep breathing? Is the speaker 

right? No, because everybody dies.

3. Lines 8 and 12 seem to do a bit of foreshadowing. Why? Why not just surprise us with the

turn and the couplet? Because it says chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd.

Because he wants to tell us that she's more lovely and more temperate than thesummer.

4. What’s up with all of the personification? William compares the beauty of her with the

lovely summer.

Exercise 7. Once you know a little bit about why and how Shakespeare wrote his poem,  Shall  I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?, you will need to choose one of the parts into which it is

divided. Read it carefully, help the computer specialist to find images related to the poem,

make a selection of lines, record them with your voices (remember you can mix Catalan,

Spanish and English) and be original in your presentation.

THE POEM IT'S IN THE FINAL VIDEO!!!!

To do this you can use the following pattern. You can design it on paper before turning your

poems into a video presentation.

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