摘要
It is generally acknowledged that the first 17 sonnets of Shakespeare is a set of poems to urge a young man to get married and have a baby so as to immortalize his beauty.However,these sonnets mirror Shakespeare’s mediations on life and death.Man is by nature mortal being,and time is the enemy of life.To endure beauty long,man can fight against time by means of child-bearing and poetic creation.The first 17 sonnets address the theme:the essence of life is to create.
It is generally acknowledged that the first 17 sonnets of Shakespeare is a set of poems to urge a young man to get married and have a baby so as to immortalize his beauty. However, these sonnets mirror Shakespeare's mediations on life and death.Man is by nature mortal being, and time is the enemy of life. To endure beauty long, man can fight against time by means of child-bearing and poetic creation. The first 17 sonnets address the theme: the essence of life is to create.
出处
《海外英语》
2014年第8X期209-210,共2页
Overseas English
