Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: "Shall I compare thee to a summers day" | Read by Harriet Walter
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- Harriet Walter reads William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: "Shall I compare thee to a summers day"
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Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
I had tears in my eyes wathching this. Thank you.
This is so impressive. I've heard this sonnet done far faster, but the deliberate, slow pacing of each word gives it a weight that other performances lack. There seems to be actual longing and admiration in her voice. Well done.
Agreed.
Pp❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤a❤love a
Beautiful
Her voice gives the poem a melancholic vibe that fits the poem well. It grows on you in a minute and a half.
Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Wonderful! The best interpretation of this sonnet ever!
Rosaria Ramazzotti agreed!
Amen to that ..
Agreeddddddd!!!!!!!
It's incredible what great words and a great voice can do. This was a wonderful rendition.
wonderful! Thanks!
Very well read.
Unlike many readings of this sonnet on RUclips, you bring out the essential sadness.
I love this sonnet so much, you can feel the connection between words which create not only an image but a great tendre feeling inside you. One evident that itbis a great piece is the fact that, it is still living till today and gives the exact feeling of reading it for the first time.
Thank you so much ! I had to memorize Sonnet 18. The pronutation and the way she speaks is simply lovely
I like this interpretation of Sonnet 18. Harriet Walter uses a soft voice, a lot of pauses, and a wistful tone to illustrate the affection and admiration the speaker is feeling.
Your rendition gave a new meaning to this sonnet
Ich finde gut dass sie es so frei vorgetragen hat und so viele Bilder benutzt hat.
Dafür gibts nen Daumen nach oben.
Stunning and sincere ❤
perfect actressssssssss!! love her!!!!!!!
The only person I ever heard recite this (slightly) better was my mum.
I might be a bit biased.
Lovely rendition.
Thank you ❤
Bravo! Finally someone that appears to understand the meaning of the poem and delivers it with some sense of shape and delivery
This is the best reading of this Sonnet that I have ever heard!
Now watch it again, but this time just watch her eyes.
All the way through, only the eyes.
Brilliant, wasn't it?
Man this is so good. Obscenely good!! Not surprised she got an Olivier for Shakespeare...
I'm 100% impressed with this reading. Thank you so much!!
This is beautiful. My inspiration for my own attempt to recite this for my beautiful late mum’s interment 💔💔 I love the fact Harriet has slowed things down . 😘
Wow! Amazing! This helped me memorize it for school! Thx!
Moving and beautifully presented. Thank you
Wow, what a voice!
As much as I appreciate the poem, Ifound that in the script, its is actually "Nor shall death brag thou wanderst in his shade" but it is recited as the word "boast" than the word "brag".....There is a lot of importance for every word in a sonnet as it has only 14 lines.....but I still loved the presentation of the sonnet...
Amrutha Anil. Yes indeedy! This is my favourite sonnet and it stuck out like a dog's hind leg to me. To my ear anyway, if i repeat them over and over alternately with brag/boast, then "brag" sounds more likely. 'Nor shall death ..... thou wandrest in his shade' is mainly an open-vowel context where 'brag' fits better than the closing o in 'boast'. Sounds better. The meaning is the same. Maybe some scholar has done a PhD on it.
There are variations in editions. 'Brag' is usually the word. "Boast" has a more deliberate punch to it. Just a thought. It worked for me.
Love this!
Thank you so much for posting this
She delivered it beautifully💗
Very very beautiful the way she read it ♥️♥️♥️♥️
Beautiful words beautifully written and spoken...
Harriet Walker knows what she is talking about
very moving!
I liked this interpretation, thanks.
Brilliant!!!
Despite one word wrong, this was a great reading. I love the emphasis on "thy eternal summer". I think this line would be distinct and delivered with yearning. Well done. :-D
Just listened to Sir Peter O'Toole's rendition for the movie Venus (2006), and have heard other renditions over decades. But Harriet Walter's version seems the best I've heard, especially how she emotes so gently yet so passionately.
Lovely😍
LOVE HER!!!!!!!! ETERNALLY!!!!!!!!!!
She brings out the longing Shakespeare likely felt for the Earl of Southampton to whom he addressed the sonnet, A beautiful rendition.
Helped me a lot with my grade eight Lamda
Read beautifully
my crush, for as long as I've known what a crush was, i have always swooned at the sight of her.
to have ms walter read or recite shakespeare to me, aaaah, shall i die...
Yes! 👏❤️
An expressive rendering...
Should not the line have read, Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, rather than, Nor shall death "boast" thou wander'st in his shade?
We could get so many people into Shakespeare if they could just hear Harriet Harman reading.
Oh she's incredible.
what a great interpretation
and a big thanks to all the contributors who have added the sonnet in the comments section, we would never have known what the words were otherwise.
if only they were written down somewhere...
woo amazing
An excellent reading
Great...
Beautiful
Maravillosa
WOWWW
This has almost a pagan, Norse feel--the belief in immortality and endless youth, but also a subtle hint of an encroaching end
Im here to study 📚✏
Yea
Like most actors, Walter emotes far too much. The poem has its own force and meaning that doesn't require this sort of over-emphasis.
Beautiful 😛😜💕
Formidable! J'entends le lointain et beau passé. Donc, votre visage et votre voix: infiniment proches, infiniment lointains
bullurs squad where u at
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
I love romantic English poems, prose.
She sounds like the lady who narrated "Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg."
She sounds like the Dark Souls narrator, amazing
Nor shall death BRAG thou wander'st in its Shade
(Not boast, as she said)
Besides, it could be a happy poem, not a sad one.
Ss soon as she spoke, i saw a Dark Souls NPC in my head talking to me
Very beautiful. Can you pls do The Good Morrow by John Donne
❤️👌
As a sonneteer working in Shakespeare's form, it does seem that music of the poem is replaced by the emotive aspects of the recitation. Shakespeare's beautiful phrasing gets lost. The whole thing is rather precious, shall we say, but I think because the sonnet is acted and not recited. There is a difference.
As the object of the sonnet (literally), and knowing the writer who gave the words to Shakespeare, I felt she was too melancholy, it should be a joyful speech really.
@@GaryM67-71I have developed in my evaluation of this performance since posting, so your reply is providential. Yes, the performance is a bit too precious. One wonders if women actresses are really the ones to be recording these. There should be much for force given to the declarative verses such as "But thy eternal summer shall not fade..." OF course, even Gielgud struggled with the Sonnets, going so far as to record them twice in his lifetime.
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Neng fou jiang ni bi zuo xia ri cui can(Mandarin). Basically, how can I compare one gem with a whole lot of gems.
An homage to Harriet Walter by student Sara Robinson, setting Walter's performance to her very clever and creative animation : ruclips.net/video/vSf9kYXEWw8/видео.html
Forgive me. I meant to write Harriet Walter.
Very, very good. I just wonder why she says "boast", instead of "brag".
im getting witch vibes
same
The Bard is such a bard.
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee
anyone here 2024?
The "t" in "often" should be silent.
Anyone else have to watch this for English?🥲
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Ignore this comment I’m trying to memorize this sonnet
grade 9 bro
OM G ME TOO O OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Why am I the only child in dis comments??.? Or am I?
don't remember asking
...
I can hear her throat croaking like a frog
اشو خفت من قصيده😹🤔 كرهت انكليزي😐😹
Gezellig of niet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Too slow of a reading.
Excuse
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.