William Shakespeare

• By: Ayona Luu

• Period 5

• English 9

• May 20, 2009

Table of ContentsNames of poems………………..Slide 3

Biography………………………Slide 4

Five poems………………………Slide 5

Sonnet #5…………………..……Slide 6

Sonnet #6………………………..Slide 7

Sonnet #7……………………….Slide 8

Sonnet #8………………………Slide 9

Sonnet #9……………………….Slide 10

Glossary…………………………Slide 11

Names of Poems

• Sonnet #5

• Sonnet #6

• Sonnet #7

• Sonnet #8

• Sonnet #9

Biography

• William Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. No one actually knows when hisl birth date is but he was baptized on April 26, 156 and died April 23, 1616. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He retired to Stratford around 1613, he died three years later. There have been considerable opinions about such matters as his physical appearance, others wrote sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the work attributed to him. A wide majority of scholars believe Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1613.His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the nineteenth century. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians hero-worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called bardolatry. In the twentieth century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are constantly studied, performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.

Five poems

Sonnet #5

HOSE hours that with gentle work did frame

The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell Will play the tyrants to the very same And that unfair which fairly doth excel; For never-resting time leads summer on To hideous winter and confounds him there, Sap checked with frost and lusty leaves quite gone, Beauty o'ersnowed and bareness everywhere. Then, were not summer's distillation left A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass, Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft, Nor it nor no remembrance what it was: But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet, Leese but there snow; their substance still lives sweet.

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Sonnet #6

• HEN let not winter's ragged hand deface • In thee thy summer ere thou be distilled: • Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place • With beauty's treasure ere it be self-killed. • That use is not forbidden usury • Which happies those that pay the willing loan; • That's for thyself to breed another thee, • Or ten times happier be it ten for one. • Ten times thyself were happier than thou art, • If ten of thine ten times refigured thee: • Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart, • Leaving thee living in posterity? • Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair • To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir.

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Sonnet #7

• LO, in the orient when the gracious light • Lifts up his burning head, each under eye • Doth homage to his new-appearing sight, • Serving with looks his sacred majesty; • And having climbed the steep-up heavenly hill, • Resembling strong yough in his middle age, • Yet mortal looks adore his beauty still, • Attending on his golden pilgrimage; • But when from high most pitch, with weary car, • Like feeble age he reeleth from the day, • The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are • From his low tract and look another way: • So thou, thyself outgoing in thy noon, • Unlooked on diest unless thou get a son.

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Sonnet #8

• MUSIC to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?

• Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy: • Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly, • Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy? • If the true concord of well-tunèd sounds, • By unions married, do offend thine ear, • They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds • In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear. • Mark how one string, sweet husband to another, • Strikes each in each by mutual ordering; • Resembling sire and child and happy mother, • Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing; • Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one, • Sings this to thee, 'Thou single wilt prove none.‘

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Sonnet #9

• IS it for fear to wet a widow's eye

• That thou consum'st thyself in single life? • Ah, if thou issueless shalt hap to die, • The world will wail thee like a makeless wife; • The world will be thy widow, and still weep • That thou no form of thee hast left behind, • When every private widow well may keep, • By children's eyes, her husband's shape in mind. • Look what an unthrift in the world doth spend • Shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it; • But beauty's waste hath in the world an end, • And, kept unused, the user so destroys it: • No love toward others in that bosom sits • Than on himself such murd'rous shame commits.

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Glossary

• Tyrants- A sovereign or other ruler who uses power oppressively or unjustly. • Posterity- Succeeding or future generations collectively: Judgment of this age must

be left to posterity. • Homage- Respect or reverence paid or rendered • Duteous- dutiful; obedient. • Pilgrimage- a journey, esp. a long one, made to some sacred place as an act of

religious devotion • Feeble- physically weak, as from age or sickness • Hath-to possess; own; hold for use; contain • Wilt-to become limp and drooping • Vial-a small container • Distillation-the volatilization or evaporation and subsequent condensation of a

liquid,