Understand Shakespeare's language with this sonnet followed by a modern translation. What's the greatest play of all time; Hamlet? Romeo and Juliet? Coreolanus? What's the greatest film series of all time; Star Wars? Lord of the Rings? The Mighty Ducks?!
This is the second of two sonnets where the love of the Fair Youth makes up for the opinions the public has about Shakespeare. Sonnets 111-112 can be performed as a pair.
Sonnet 111 - • Understand Shakespeare...
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. 112 down 42 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 112 full text:
Your love and pity doth the impression fill
Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow;
For what care I who calls me well or ill,
So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow?
You are my all the world, and I must strive
To know my shames and praises from your tongue;
None else to me, nor I to none alive,
That my steeled sense or changes right or wrong.
In so profound abysm I throw all care
Of others' voices, that my adder's sense
To critic and to flatterer stoppèd are.
Mark how with my neglect I do dispense:
You are so strongly in my purpose bred
That all the world besides methinks they're dead.
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