Nothing to do with weed but

this is my favorite thead area so I will ask you guys. I have to go up in front of class tommrow and explain this poem by William Shakespeare and just want to know if anyone can explain what it means. Dont post here if your gonna say something like "this is the marijuana thread not poetry thread". ANyways here it is

Sonnet
XXXIX
O! how thy worth with manners may I sing,
When thou art all the better part of me?
What can mine own praise to mine own self bring?
And what is't but mine own when I praise thee?
Even for this, let us divided live,
And our dear love lose name of single one,
That by this separation I may give
That due to thee which thou deserv'st alone.
O absence! what a torment wouldst thou prove,
Were it not thy sour leisure gave sweet leave,
To entertain the time with thoughts of love,
Which time and thoughts so sweetly doth deceive,
And that thou teachest how to make one twain,
By praising him here who doth hence remain.

 

i'm stoned and that just went over my head.
this area is full of stoners. if they can comprehend, then they can do much better than myself.

 

Shakespeare, didn't expect to see this here. I can actually define this...

How can I say this so it doesnt offend you
as you are my partner/loved one
and what is this worth, as you're a part of me, and self praise is worthless
I have come up with this, we must seperate
Our love will go away
.. and then they go on to say that the time apart will be difficult cuz they'll think of the other and wonder what they're doing.

 

is this for a Lit class? it's pretty advanced for a typical english class if it's just english

anyways i can "somewhat" agree with Metallideath besides the last 4 lines of his interpretation, i belive the 2nd half of the poem deals more with issues of "being without you means all the more to me because when we are not together, thoughts of you are the only things that fill my mind, and by being seperate we become closer and by being alone, teaches us to be together"

 

lol, I got bored of reading it. the last four lines looks more like

To entertain the time with thoughts of love, - filling my time with thoughts of love

Which time and thoughts so sweetly doth deceive, - these thoughts deceive the situation and the frame of mind

And that thou teachest how to make one twain, - you learn to be seperated

By praising him here who doth hence remain. - by praising "him" who is away

it would appear the story is talking about a person who has a great love for someone and feels for some reason that they must seperate, he will survive by keeping the person in mind and therefore they haven't really seperated at all.

 

i remembered the whole fuckin play in grade 9... that's the strict ontario curriculum for you

 

omg man funny sdhit i have to present a poem then get asked a whole bunch of qustions also the class is american literature

 

shakespeare isnt american?

 

ya except ours is British Literature


thanks for the help guys

 

man i wonder if people actually talked like that back then... shakespeare must have been a total geek

 

they didnt talk like that, but probably used some language and similar sentance structure, all shakespears work is written with poetic devices so the only people that actually talked like that were probably actors and the theatre type

 

yeah i know they didn't talk in rhyme and stuff, but it's still weird. I think the verses here must have been simplified, because we read some shakespeare in 10th grade english class, and it was hell to understand.

 

Producing phrases fit to metered form
Will sometimes cause the structure to confuse
The reader on the the meaning of the words.