Question

What difference does the speaker make between the ancient poets and the present poets lesson 12 sonnet 106

Answer 1

Answer:

ʜᴇʏ ᴍᴀᴛᴇ!

Explanation:

When in the chronicle of wasted time’ is one of the more famous poems in Shakespeare’s cycle of 154 sonnets. Before we proceed to an analysis of the poem’s features, here’s a reminder of Sonnet 106.

When in the chronicle of wasted time

I see descriptions of the fairest wights,

And beauty making beautiful old rhyme,

In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,

Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty’s best,

Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,

I see their antique pen would have expressed

Even such a beauty as you master now.

So all their praises are but prophecies

Of this our time, all you prefiguring;

And for they looked but with divining eyes,

They had not skill enough your worth to sing:

For we, which now behold these present days,

Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.

Sonnet 106 is another poem addressed to the Fair Youth, whose beauty Shakespeare praises. To paraphrase the meaning of Sonnet 106: ‘When I read descriptions of beautiful people in old books, people whose beauty inspired old poems, praising women who are now dead and handsome knights, I see in such descriptions of these paragons of beauty that the authors would have gladly described your beauty. So all of their praise of others is merely a foreshadowing of your beauty in the present time – yet although they had the wit to predict your arrival, they did not

have the skill to describe you. For even we poets who live now at the same time as you can admire your beauty, but we don’t have the skill to put such beauty into adequate words.’

Answer 2

Explanation:

Answer:-

When in the chronicle of wasted time’ is one of the more famous poems in Shakespeare’s cycle of 154 sonnets. Before we proceed to an analysis of the poem’s features, here’s a reminder of Sonnet 106.

When in the chronicle of wasted time

I see descriptions of the fairest wights,

And beauty making beautiful old rhyme,

In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,

Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty’s best,

Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,

I see their antique pen would have expressed

Even such a beauty as you master now.

So all their praises are but prophecies

Of this our time, all you prefiguring;

And for they looked but with divining eyes,

They had not skill enough your worth to sing:

For we, which now behold these present days,

Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.

Sonnet 106 is another poem addressed to the Fair Youth, whose beauty Shakespeare praises. To paraphrase the meaning of Sonnet 106: ‘When I read descriptions of beautiful people in old books, people whose beauty inspired old poems, praising women who are now dead and handsome knights, I see in such descriptions of these paragons of beauty that the authors would have gladly described your beauty. So all of their praise of others is merely a foreshadowing of your beauty in the present time – yet although they had the wit to predict your arrival, they did not

have the skill to describe you. For even we poets who live now at the same time as you can admire your beauty, but we don’t have the skill to put such beauty into adequate words.’

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