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Sonnet 18 (also known as "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day") is one of the best-known of the 154 sonnets written by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare.. In the sonnet, the speaker asks whether he should compare the Fair Youth to a summer's day, but notes that he has qualities that surpass a summer's day, which is one of the themes of the poem.
The nature of that love has often been debated, namely whether it was romantic or platonic in nature, The consensus is generally that they are more romantic in nature, judging by the classic romantic language used in Sonnets like the famous 18th ("shall I compare thee to a Summer's day"), and the poet's lamentation that the youth was not born a ...
"The Willow Song" performed by Barbara Bonney (Othello, Act IV, scene 3) "Music to hear, why hearst thou music sadly" performed by Ladysmith Black Mambazo "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" performed by Bryan Ferry ; Two pieces of Shakespeare's plays were set to music by Loreena McKennitt:
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:
The term "English rose" is found in Merrie England (1902), a comic opera written by Basil Hood.He describes a garden where "women are the flowers" and in which "the sweetest blossom" or "fairest queen" is "the perfect English rose". [2]
The sonnet was set to music by Benjamin Britten as the last song of his eight-song cycle Nocturne Op. 60 (1958) for tenor, 7 obbligato instruments (flute, clarinet, cor anglais, bassoon, French horn, timpani, harp) and strings. In 1990 Dutch composer Jurriaan Andriessen set the poem to a mixed chamber choir setting.
Sonnet 122 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, and first published in 1609.It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man.
Stroope earned a master's degree in voice performance at the University of Colorado (Boulder) and his doctorate in conducting from Arizona State University.In an electronic publication, Stroope states that even though he had dabbled in composition since the age of ten, it was not until he wrote The Cloths of Heaven, and Inscription of Hope, that he began to gain recognition.