🎉 It's my 100th sonnet video! 🎉
Understand Shakespeare's language with this sonnet followed by a modern translation. I had a lot of fun filming this one. I wanted to do something entertaining for my 100th Shakespeare sonnet, so the second half of the translation is more of a bonus comedy sketch. I hope you enjoy. It took a lot for me to bare nip on the internet 😂
This is the first of two sonnets where Shakespeare demands his Muse returns to help him write poetry about the Fair Youth. Sonnets 100-101 can be performed as a pair.
Sonnet 101 - • Shakespeare Locked Dow...
As I'm in lockdown, I'm using this time to learn all of Shakespeare's sonnets. I hope you find the modern translation afterwards entertaining. 100 down 54 to go!
This poem is both part of the Fair Youth Sonnets & part of the sequence from 87-126 known as the Fickle Youth Sonnets.
Sonnet 100 full text:
Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long
To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?
Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song,
Darkening thy power to lend base subjects light?
Return, forgetful Muse, and straight redeem
In gentle numbers time so idly spent;
Sing to the ear that doth thy lays esteem,
And gives thy pen both skill and argument.
Rise, resty Muse, my love's sweet face survey,
If Time have any wrinkle graven there,
If any, be a satire to decay,
And make Time's spoils despisèd everywhere.
Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life,
So thou prevent'st his scythe and crookèd knife.
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Intro music composed & recorded by Joel Goodman.
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