Start your discussion by examining the structure of the poem: Have your students count the lines and note the rhyme and meter. So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,Īnd every fair from fair sometime declines,īy chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,Īnd summer’s lease hath all too short a date If you teach Sonnet 18, here are some helpful inroads for leading your students through this masterpiece. No poet widens our experience and opens the world to us more through his poetic forms than does William Shakespeare and, of all his sonnets, Sonnet 18-his most famous-is an unmatched execution of the poetic art of expanding experience and vision.
From that advantageous perspective, we see more clearly what is real. Through the compact form of poetry, poets situate us in the wide and wonderful world we inhabit. Poems widen, deepen, and heighten our experience.
One of the chief reasons we read poetry is that it expands our experience and vision.
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