Sonnet 18 EXPLAINED!

[@overthedreams337]

My teacher assigned to watch this as a homework for the quarantine, now I can see why. You're great! Thanks for the explanation you're far better than a regular teacher. Greetings from Italy!

[@elainemonteiro2072]

Omg same lol

[@ellagracebrigid5751]

Same here

[@corinafoster7225]

Same here

[@arrowhead2505]

Alex Kroulik same this sonnet is dusty and crusty as hell

[@kennethg3929]

same

[@amyhylton8000]

I never thought of it being a eulogy before but now I totally do! Thank you!

[@chelsearoffey3806]

I think that it is Shakespeare's poem to poetry. When he says "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee." I think he is referring to poetry, and as long as people are alive poetry will live with it.

[@mariemamer8592]

That's good Can I use this for my assignment? 🥺

[@janetmokheseng1737]

great explanation and i love your energy!

[@abeerkhalil9795]

Thank you. Your explanation is amazing! I believe it is a death poem, the last time to see someone he loved or maybe sitting by his love's grave. He just wanted to create an eternity started by those lines to feel that he honoured not only his love but this person too. Nothing is better than that!

[@nin3_]

AMAZING!!!!!!! Much love from South Africa!

[@otanaknanarluq6764]

I just discovered this channel, and it is FANTASTIC! I absolutely love the Shakespeare stuff. I'm surprised you don't have more subscribers.

[@garryjarvis4205]

You’re correct on both counts, I feel to have loved someone so strongly, to have immortalised them in what he knew would be read throughout the ages, is such a wonderful tribute to the one you love. By the way! Very enjoyable to listen to the explanation.

[@DarkForcesStudio]

Great final reading. Perfect.

[@daniella2929]

your recital was beautiful

[@Hotftrup]

Loved that charismatic filter thank you ☺️ 💕

[@lesliehyland3647]

In our beginning voyage into the world of poetry for my homeschooling 6th graders, we are very grateful to have stumbled upon you! You are wonderful!

[@ludovicacrosa554]

Amazing! I am speechless!Your interpretation of this eternal sonnet is wonderful and inspiring!

[@raisubasna6533]

In my perspective it's a love poem.. Lines for his loved one who is in the face of death.. I loved the way you explained... Great job.. 😊to very much.

[@sassit9604]

Not just the explanation even your recitation is way too good 🌼

[@tgchism]

Either way, he meant for this person to live on because of his love for them. Could easily work both ways though I like to believe it's a love poem.

[@IsrebaWheeler]

this Sonnet 18 interpretation was by happenstance, in that, I was watching a video prior. But as I allowed it to continue to its end and beyond, your video opened. I sat and watched, listened as your interpretation changed voice as you read lines from the sonnet. Incredible. Immediately...I gave it a thumbs up...and subscribed. Your interpretation was the joint.

[@heisenberg4312]

Thank you for your analysis. My wife and I lost our 25 year old daughter to a tragic accident this week. Sonnet 18 will be used as a eulogy, with David Gilmour's rendition played at her service.

[@DarkForcesStudio]

I'm so sorry. Love going out to you and yours. x

[@LoudWritr2]

First I have to say that I simply love your reading of this. Your down to earth, engaging, relatable speaking voice got my attention, yet when you alter your tone to read, it is beautifully authoritative and melodic. It locked me in. As to the question of whether this is a love poem or a death poem, I'm sorry to take the easy way out, but I think it can be both. I always thought of it as a gorgeous love poem, yet I can see it as either. Isn't that what makes poetry work? Isn't that what makes Shakespeare perpetually relevant? The lending of art to multiple interpretations allows it to stay alive in a thousand different ways over time. Also, thanks for this. Made my day.

[@splash7489]

I see the possiblity of it being a sad farewell poem, but I feel that it is a poem to a very alive lover. I love this channel I have just found . thanks

[@chandanperla7821]

such am amazing explanation, this is simply LIT

[@IcahNIsha]

Thankyou so so much for explaining this , I first thought it was a love poem.

[@azarulahmed789]

Initially I thought this was gonna be crap, but you smashed it!. Cheers bro!

[@DarkForcesStudio]

Nicely done. Love your directness. The poem (for me) is incredibly defiant, an argument for beauty and a f*ck you to time and death's lingering shadow. Beauty will always exist no matter what as it immortalised in words.

[@d_terminator_1994]

Such an awesome explanation... Thank you very much, from my view this crazy love poem never fades, especially when it compares to sun. IT IS UNBEATABLE

[@nd_y_l4]

Wow!am here for school purpose and you are great at this🤗🤗

[@mv925]

youuu helped me before my exam day so thank you so much ❤❤❤

[@staceyglover5005]

That's so interesting, I never thought of it that way, but as you read it the second time it made sense. Brilliant... I loved it x

[@jamunagurung4270]

Thank you so much 💟💟💟 for your help

[@hyunejft]

glad found this channel, i am doing school work on sonnets right now and i found your video and it enlightened me a lot, thank you from England♥

[@hipo751975]

I loved your video. I'm from Argentina and I teach English. I wanted to prepare this sonnet for a group of friends just thinking it was somehow flattering, love praising and romantic....but you are right....it can be a mourning eulogy and one of my friends lost her mum some days ago...

[@Stoel29]

Woow great thoughts thanks a lot. Hope you make more videos

[@pixelgirlgaming3719]

Here for online school and this was very much a good breakdown of it for school :)

[@enki9006]

It was a love poem to a gentleman that he admired. His secret love.

[@wenbochan7570]

best analysis in the listing of most videos under the topic of sonnet 18

[@tanzimchowdhury6668]

I needed this explanation. Without it, I would've failed my ELA class.

[@nynmlg2299]

Thank you greetings from Germany

[@linomathew1001]

ur a good help to my assignment just now thanks man

[@nouranedaou6058]

Keep doing these videos you really how no idea how much they help

[@mrholmes2855]

Hello I wanna know u natives are able to comprehend "fair from fair" ?

[@michellepagenel2304]

La beauté de la rose est éternelle !

[@mariemamer8592]

Someone help me Who could be the intended person ?

[@zainabbari641]

This dude explained better than my teacher

[@jadonessilfie95]

Thanks for explaining 👍👍👍👍

[@govt.collegejamwaramgarhja8827]

U have explained so well.🤗

[@Shilo111]

Death of a loved one . Plz carry on with ur videos . We really need your knowledge

[@mawdudjabar6763]

i believe that: it is a love poem rather than a death poem.

[@piyusha3571]

can definitely be seen as a eulogy, had there been more tea around willy's romances we'd know

[@zainabshaaban9656]

Thank you so much that's very useful you actually helped me understand this poem for my exam.....

[@johnjoyce8774]

Thank you do i just watched this and passed a test

[@hattanaljunaibi5321]

thank you , i really understand it

[@chandraa6586]

Thank you, I have understand the poem

[@anjalipandit4961]

Thank u 😊 u made this so easy for me to understand thanks a lot 💖💖

[@sikhamallick8528]

I love you man !!!! It's helpful 🐒

[@joshuawalker8594]

You should do more sonnets. All 154 of them. I love Shakespeare's poems. Him and Tupac Shakur is the reason why I'm into poetry and write my own. Do more sonnets start at the very first one. I motivate you and you motivate me.

[@stephennoble4310]

This is to his son who died aged 11 years old. Shakespeare was in London and did not get back to Stratford in time to see his son before he died. He wrote the sonnet as a eulogy.

[@elaineclarke1535]

Thankyou, enjoyed your reading and interpretation.Hmmm maybe a eulogy, when you listen with different approach. Elaine

[@ilaidardashti7437]

You're the GOAT

[@Sam-tv2dp]

love it, thanks for sharing

[@gaiabussi6413]

have we got the video transcript? :)

[@ワーナー-p8t]

Its depends on how you look at this sonnet To me it's a love letter for someone

[@OmurBayramov]

So cool

[@Maltij]

Thank you

[@theinsanecouple1706]

Thank u so much

[@Joe-un1tl]

Shakespeare is a titan among men. He will live on forever ♾.

[@herminetarrade7006]

I like the idea of the sonnet being a death poem

[@gaishiya7696]

Like every other person here i too mistook it for a love sonnet. Now without any doubt I would go for eulogy!!

[@henrysvideo426]

I really like your video.

[@renataromek9827]

Thanks.

[@rkbohare2088]

Oh my god you explained it very nicely . Can you please explain sonnet 129,130,138

[@kelseyoconnell3369]

Personally, I see no reason why it can't be both... I first read it as a love poem to someone who's worried about aging (and therefore also worried about dying) and in this he's comforting them, saying that in these words they will be forever young. I loved the interpretation someone said about this being a poem to poetry, however :)

[@juliekanehl3003]

I agree with your idea, if only it fit the narrative of the sonnets as a whole.

[@artcrafter9941]

"a love poem or a death poem?" I agree with you on both, the love endures beyond death and probably a friend, family member or the widow/-er is reading it out as an eulogy. like your content very very very ... very very much is there a reason why your`re looking to the right and lefthandside corners but not in the cxamera?

[@TCPPoetry]

Yeah, I'm not looking at the camera in any of my videos. I'm blind; I have only partial vision. In my videos I'm looking to where I think the camera is and as of yet I've never guessed correctly.

[@raa.a7005]

I think this poem is about love itself

[@vkorchnoifan]

Some have said that Shakespeare was influence by Michael de Montaigne. I think so, having read some of his essays.

[@OmurBayramov]

And thanks for test mark 7 out of 7

[@fi6449]

🥺❤️

[@dasazamir9470]

Who are you? I"m amazed? I want more of this. I think he is in the beginning of a love forecasting its death. Can you do sonnet 130 and 129?

[@moolchandattrish]

Dasa Zamir great interpretation!

[@noramacias4353]

I really think this is a death poem. Actually I think this poem was written for his only son Hamnet, he died at a young age.

[@johnlara7577]

Any sjpc here? 😳

[@OmurBayramov]

Like you

[@chefe1967]

I'm only slightly late to guess- I think it's a death poem.

[@mininovaband]

An Apple Gathering, Rossetti ?

[@richardrichard4408]

where is he looking at

[@TCPPoetry]

Your guess is as good as his.

[@psandbergnz]

This love poem was written to a particular young man. This fact is usually hidden from school children.

[@TCPPoetry]

Citation?

[@psandbergnz]

@@TCPPoetry You need me to cite for you over this, and you're teaching this? It's so easy to research! Literary scholars are aware that the first 126 sonnets were addressed to a young man (a "fair man"), sparking debates about Shakespeare’s sexuality. The nature of the relationship between the two men is highly ambiguous and it is often impossible to tell if Shakespeare is describing platonic or erotic love. In those days, men were much less inhibited thasn today (it seems) in expressing affection for their own sex. Here's a start: litpriest.com/poems/sonnet-18-summary/ www.thoughtco.com/sonnet-18-study-guide-2985141 Btw, can you provide a citation that refutes the above, or suggests that the subject of sonnet 18 is a woman?

[@psandbergnz]

@@TCPPoetry , I hope you take this as constructive cirticism: but you are reciting the poem incorrectly! The rhythm is written to be iambic, meaning that the stress falls on the SECOND syllable of the sentence, alternating like this: dee-DUM dee-DUM dee-DUM etc, so that the DUM carries the emphasis or stress. So in the opening sentence, the stress falls on "I", not on the first word, "Shall". You often put the stress on the first word or syllable of the sentence. Similarly, in the second line, the stress is on "art", not "Thou". Etc.

[@GH07T_]

ay yo peepe poopo check

[@sarahmiller1190]

I still don't know either

[@angelacai7301]

please make more! love it

[@thirriaruna269]

👌

[@luffyandgokuskits]

''shenron''

[@mariamesmail7028]

You're great continue👏💙🌸

[@andreicomanici5469]

i think that is a death poem

[@jashodharabhose619]

I wish my Professors were as cool as you in College. Is it just me or he made this lesson sexy ? idk.. thanks for explaining it so nice .✨

[@samscrib8719]

Anyone from Ileah's class?

[@anouarsbahi7285]

R u american bro

[@castledreamer]

To a deceased lover poem I guess

[@stitchedme4741]

You know which sonnet I'm waiting for... XD

[@zombieslayer6542]

Stitched Me sonnet 135? That ones already done :)

[@stitchedme4741]

a_360quickscope no, it's a special sonnet, sonnet 44

[@ieronim272]

sounds to me like man's talking about himself

[@arrowhead2505]

Sonnet 18... what a dusty and crusty as hell words

[@rodri1357]

You know nothing John Snow.. Wait apparently you know poetry, good for you