Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Best Sonnet by Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 is among the highly acclaimed of the total of 154 sonnets. It addresses the ephemeral charm of a young man and the overriding power of poetry which seeks to immortalize him. It is famed, in part, because it touches upon a very human fear: life, death, and remembrance. It also motivates people to reflect on the strength words hold; to eternalize otherwise perishable beings.
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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 ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
#poetry

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That's a phenomenal reading.

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Just when I thought I was out of KZbin, he pulls me back in.

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The greatest actor reading the greatest writer's work. That's greatness.

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He read a poem that they can't refuse.

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Beautiful. My favourite Shakespeare sonnet and a lovely surprising reading. Thank you

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beautiful. I am touched. Thank you

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Thanks for listening

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My favourite ❤

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It is a great and pleasing step when celebrities start breathing in the eternal old treasures! Thanks a lot!

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Gold.

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So long lives ...

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❤

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I can't help but picture Fat Tony from the Simpsons. Next up, the ghost of James Gandolfini recites How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

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Acha h

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Wow, I'm an idiot. I thought this said read by AI Pacino, like an Artificial Intelligence trained to mimic Al Pacino and now I realize it's actually Pacino himself reciting this sonnett and what I thought was an I is actually an L.

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😅 A.I. Pacino, all the talent but without the “GREAT ASS”

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Didn't understand anything but sounds good 👍🏻

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I feel like I'm being both hit on and about to be hit

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0:10

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But dai iternal summer shell not fade

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Well read. Whoever made this video knows very little about Shakespeare and/or Sonnet 18. This sonnet was dedicated to a man, not a lady. Duh!

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[@eddufilho3247]

I love Shakespeare, but in all honesty, I don’t think his reading was very good.

[@davidlucey1311]

Sorry, I just didn’t care for it. He’s a great actor but this was not a great reading.