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Okay, good morning everybody. How are you? Good.

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How was the rain last night? Beautiful.

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Boring?

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Yeah, I know, like, so the drones were like very 

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noisy. And we thought that they would stop last 

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night, but they didn't stop. Anyway, forget about

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the drones. Let's live winter. And let's live 

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poetry classes. Today, we're planning, I'm

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planning to reconsider the two poems because I 

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thought we should have another go on the two poems 

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from the aesthetic point of view and also the 

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thematic point of view. But first, as usual, we 

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need to listen to one or two students reporting

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about the previous class. Yes, please come. There, 

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the lady.

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You just come here. Come here. Come here. Come, 

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come. Okay. Last lecture, I was absent, which was 

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against my will. I knew from one of the classmates 

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that Dr. Habib asked a few girls to read their 

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reports, their daily reports, but they didn't. I 

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was in their place one time, but only because I 

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didn't know how to write the daily report. Now I 

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practice and I think I'm getting better by time.

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Now let's go for Shakespeare. I really like 

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Shakespeare. Every time his name has been heard, I 

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hear his name or I write it or even I read it. I 

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feel that feeling inside me tells me that he is 

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the greatest poet in the world. There was a news 

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that there is a new movie says that Shakespeare is 

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not the original writer of his works. I 

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immediately denied that. I think he is a great

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writer and I will always think like that. I can't 

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wait to start the new sonnet of Shakespeare. Okay,

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thank you very much.

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Yes, Jihan, you want to exonerate yourself. You

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know what it means, exonerate? Like to acquit

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yourself when you are in a court and you commit a 

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mistake. Then you say, no, it's not me. I was 

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like, so you excuse yourself. I don't blame

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myself. I blame time. You blame time. She's 

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blaming time. But time not like here. It is very

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tough here. Okay. TikTok surrounds the clock, so 

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rapid did time fly. I'm still in shock. Better in

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days when I am attending, though not as reckless as 

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when I'm not. Work sickness all subject to decay.

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Even lectures in uni will in my memory rot. Though

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I am back to the battlefield, so nowhere is

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Shakespeare your poetry or not. Okay, thank you

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very much. I think, you know, by time management,

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we can overcome this problem. I know you're busy, 

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Jihan, but if you manage your time very well, 

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you'll be okay. Some people are Yeah, time is 

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cruel. Time is passing quickly. However, if you

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manage your time, you know, I think you will

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conquer time. And this is like what Shakespeare 

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never thought of. So he thought he would manage 

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his time or he would manage time or he would 

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conquer time by writing poetry. And I think to 

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some extent he was right. Okay. Is anybody

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willing, like, Again, you want to exonerate

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yourself. Please come. Okay.

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So I have to be tough in order to be kind. Okay. 

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Yes. I miss the law, but I won't miss the rest. I 

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know that I was such a passive girl, but that will 

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turn to be from the past. As we know that every 

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culture has a start, a peak, and a catastrophe. 

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Sometimes we are to be the same, to begin the

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semester as achievers and finish it with a sign of

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failure. If things can have another track. We just 

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need the courage, the will, and the vision so we

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can be a way from what disappoints and aborts us.

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It's just a matter of moments, of being frank with

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yourself, so everyone can know what is to be done

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and what is not. It's just a matter of people 

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around you who tend to abort or encourage you. So 

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be positive, have the courage, speak up, face your 

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problems, then have a great day. Okay, thank you

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very much. This reminds me of a poem, you know, 

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you might have studied in Tawjihi, which says, be 

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strong. We're not here to play, to dream, to 

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drift. We have hard work to do and loads to lift. 

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Yes, one should be realistic. One should manage

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his or her time and work hard because tomorrow

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will come the smile. You're fretting today. You

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might be sick coming to class. You might be tired. 

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But I think everything is considered. Let's see. I

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don't want to waste time also talking about

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general issues.

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Shall I compare it to a summer's day? We looked at

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it, we listened to the song, and we looked at the 

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aesthetics. But today I'm asking different

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questions. After reading the two poems, we 

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discovered that Shakespeare was writing on the

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same theme, which was like the immortality of his

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poetry. So in the two poems, So Long As Lives This

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And Gives Life To Thee, and like in the other 

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poem, he was like vowing that nothing will

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immortalize his friend, None unless this miracle 

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have might that in black ink my love shine bright. 

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So Shakespeare in the two poems is writing about

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his poetry, in fact. It's about his poetry. Yes,

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he's trying to immortalize the beauty of his

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friend. He's trying to immortalize the memory of

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his friend in the second. But if you look deeply

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and you look at Shakespeare's intent, he was, in 

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fact, trying to show that his poetry will be 

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immortal. And I think in the two poems, he was 

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bragging that his poetry would live and would

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immortalize him. So far, Shakespeare is right

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because we're reading him. Shakespeare, you know,

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sometimes,

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can be thought of as England, and England thought

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of Shakespeare, so if you go England, Shakespeare. 

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So they are connected with each other. Okay, let's 

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look at the poems again. Shall I Compare Thee to 

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Summer's Day? I think this is, as we said, it is a

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rhetorical question. Shall I compare thee to a 

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summer's day? Now this rhetorical question, he 

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started his poem by a rhetorical question. And 

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Shakespeare was an orator. Shakespeare was a 

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writer for the theater. He was an actor himself. 

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And we should read this poem as if we were on the 

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stage. Okay? We shouldn't read this poem like, 

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shall I compare thee to a summer's day? No, it

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should be, shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

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You have to use body language. You have to feel 

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what you are reading. So if we read this, shall I

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compare thee to a summer's day? Like, what does 

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this rhetorical question imply? Shall I compare

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thee to a summer's day? What does it imply? Yes?

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It is impossible to compare. It is impossible to

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compare, you know? But more, it is impossible to

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compare. You know, it is unlikely to compare. It 

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is unlikely to compare. What else? Despair.

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You know, he's like confused, you want to say? 

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? But look

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at the second line. What does he say in the second 

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line? What does he say in the second line? Okay, 

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what does he say in the second line? Thou are more

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lovely and more temperate. So I think asking this 

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question implies that She is beyond comparison. Or

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he, his friend, is beyond comparison. So the 

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rhetorical question, it is a kind of exaggeration.

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He's exaggerating the beauty of the friend. What 

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is he trying to say? That your beauty is beyond 

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any comparison. Shall I compare thee to a summer's 

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day? And I think he should be wagging like this.

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No. You are beyond comparison. They are more

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lovely and more temperate. They are more lovely

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and temperate. It is an assertion. They are. You 

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are. So when we are using you are not you maybe 

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you are more lovely and more temperate. Of course

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here it is like contrasting. He is contrasting.

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And we said when somebody is contrasting, he's 

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showing the differences. They are more lovely and 

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more temperate. I think there is a metaphor here

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running. What is the metaphor? Yes. What is

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Shakespeare comparing him to? To what? What is he 

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comparing, you know, the beauty of his friend to?

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Yes? To the summer's day. To the summer's day.

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Yes, you're right. But he refused to compare it.

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No, but he's contrasting, you know, but I mean, 

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because of the sake of the analogy. So he's trying 

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to compare, you know, the day with. But he's 

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contrasting, in fact. Yes. Now, summer, or 

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summer's day might be temperate or not temperate

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because in England. So if you are talking about 

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he, the friend, is more temperate, this should be 

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a metaphor. Yes? Now they are more temperate. So

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look here, his friend is being considered as 

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summer in a metaphoric sense. I want you, like, to 

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bear this in mind when you go at the end of the 

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poem, when he's telling him, thy summer. So there

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is a development in the poem from summer, you

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know, as being metaphoric into a real summer.

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Okay. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of 

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May. Very frightening. Why? Very frightening. Yes?

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Okay, yes, the image itself is very frightening.

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So if we look, you know, rough ones, like first of 

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all, this is a multi-layer figure of speech. Rough

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ones, you know, rough ones are being seen like

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what? A tough person who is shaking, Of what? The

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trees causing the buds to fall down. So it's an 

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image of, you know, sabotage. It is an image of

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destruction, you know, sabotage, destruction. 

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Okay, violence. But if you think, and then, you 

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know, the buds of May, you know, like small, 

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they're joining, newly growing. However, we might 

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also think of this as, you know, a

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do we have, the eye of heaven. It's a metaphor. So

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the eye of heaven, the sun shines, the eye of

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heaven. So But is it shining all the time? 

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Sometimes. Sometimes, you know, it's an adverb of

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what? Frequency. And again, here, if you look, we

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have often and sometime, and often and sometime

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have to do with things changing, not remaining the 

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same. And Shakespeare, because Shakespeare was

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concerned with the change itself, so look here, we 

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can easily connect these things with the feeling

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of change. Yes, sometime too hot the eye of heaven 

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shines. So it's a metaphor. But in the second

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line, it is developed. The same figure of speech

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is developed, and off is his old complexion 

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dimmed. So the complexion, what is complexion?

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It's like the complexion of the face. So don't you 

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think here, what figure of speech is this? It is 

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personification, yes. It is personification. Thank 

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you. Yes, he here, like the sun, is being 

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portrayed as a person who has, you know, like

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complexion. Sometimes they are shining complexion 

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and sometimes they are... Yeah, and Shakespeare

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was upset with that, you know, norm of 

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inconsistency. It is a norm of change. It is a 

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norm of fluctuation. So Shakespeare was upset with 

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that, and it seems like he was trying to find a 

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way out of that dilemma. It continues like this,

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yes? Yeah, the next line declines. Yeah, yeah. And 

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every fair from fair sometime declines. Yeah, and 

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every fair from fair. Look, I think this is like

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very disappointing reality for Shakespeare. And 

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every fair from fair. Look at the alliteration

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shows how Shakespeare was concerned, was upset 

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with this fact. And every fair from fair sometime 

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declines. I think sometime here is different from 

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the sometime in the previous line. How is it

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different? Is it an adverb of time here? Adverb of

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frequency? No. So what does it mean? Like, and

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every fair from fair sometime declines. What does

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it mean? And every fair, can you translate it into

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Arabic? And every fair from fair sometime.

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Yeah, but like I want sometime. You didn't 

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translate sometime. Something else. Yeah, and I

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want you to translate it in Arabic, like.

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Yeah, 

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you can translate this, but like sometime. And 

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every fair from fair sometime. I think, you know,

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you can translate it. وكل جمال يوم ما إلى زوال Or

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في النهاية إلى زوال

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وكله نعيم لمحالة إلى زوال. You know, this is what 

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Khalid is translating in his booth there. He's 

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very, he's listening to us, but I'm very happy

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like he's doing that. Yes, here it means finally,

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eventually. Sometime here means eventually. So

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Shakespeare like is very, he's mastering the

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language, you know, and Shakespeare like 

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introduced or coined many words that, you know, 

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becoming Shakespeare words. Anyway, by chance or

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changing nature, like he's telling us how, how

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this decline is happening. By chance or nature's

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changing course untrimmed. Now Shakespeare here is 

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referring to, you know, the forces of death in a 

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more metaphoric sense. Like when he's saying

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chance, he was referring to fortune, to hap. And I

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think this is an allusion. You know what's an

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allusion? It is a reference to something outside

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the text. You know, when you say he's making

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allusion, He's alluding to something. Yeah, it is, 

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but not the fortune teller. Fortune, she was a 

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woman who was behind a wheel turning, this wheel, 

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and then you don't know. So your situation remains 

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all the time precarious. You know what's 

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precarious? In danger, insecure. Yeah, so you 

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don't feel any security at all. Your situation

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will be precarious. Good. or changing scores 

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untrimmed. Like again here, this is a reference to

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like the natural disasters, the natural

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calamities. You know what I mean calamities? 

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Disasters, catastrophes. These natural calamities

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are unpredictable, are untrimmed, untrimmed. Of 

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course here, he's comparing natural, there is a 

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metaphor here. He's comparing natural 

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disasters to something which can be like grass, 

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but it is untrimmed. Untrimmed means uneven. So

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when we trim something, we make it even. But when

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it is untrimmed, it means something is longer.

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Here, what he wants to say, natural disasters are 

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unpredictable. They are not even. Some of them are 

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tsunami-like, some of them destructive

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earthquakes. You don't know. They are

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unpredictable. What is unpredictable is more

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precarious. 

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So if we look how Shakespeare was meditating, 

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these were how Shakespeare meditating. He was 

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thinking. He was meditating what would happen. And 

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I think we share Shakespeare. You know, the most

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interesting thing that Shakespeare in the two

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poems is writing about particular, you know, 

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experience. But this particular experience becomes 

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common. We share Shakespeare's concern. And this 

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is the greatness, again, of Shakespeare.

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Shakespeare is lyrical poetry. It is lyrical. It

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talks about personal experience. However, like his 

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experience is shared by all the people. You see

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what I mean? But not all the English even, all the 

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people around the world. It is. You can easily

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identify with. So great poetry, as we said, if you

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remember at the beginning of the course, great

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poetry is the poetry which allows you to identify, 

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which allows you to be an insider of the poem 

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itself. By chance or nature's changing course

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untrimmed. Look here, Shakespeare in the final 

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couplet is trying to find a way out. And now here,

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he started to give us some hints what he's going

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to do. Thy eternal summer. Look here, thy summer.

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So summer which was being seen as like metaphoric

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is becoming real. Your summer, you are the summer 

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yourself, but you are different summer. But thy

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summer, 

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thy eternal summer shall not fade. Again, we have

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a metaphor. You know, the summer of the friend is 

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like a plant which will never, you know, fade. It 

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will remain lush green. I like this collocation, 

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lush green. It will remain lush green forever. 

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Why? Because this is how Shakespeare thought of 

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his poetry. And I think here, he was bragging. He 

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was cherishing his poetry.but thy eternal summer 

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shall not fade nor lose possession of that fairs

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thou owest it will never your you know because you

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know your your summer will be in my eternal lines 

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so it will never lose its beauty will remain

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intact you know what's mean intact you know intact

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unblemished as it is intact

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It will remain as it is. 

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But, like, if you hear, like, go to the, you know, 

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nor lose position of that, first thou owest, nor

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shall death. Nor. Look at nor. Nor. So Shakespeare

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here is contesting, is challenging. Death will

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not. Nor. Nor. So the not and the nor, you know, 

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the use of these has to, you know, to do with 

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Shakespeare's attitude of contesting with death, 

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you know, challenging death. Nor, nor, nor. Nor 

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shall death brag that wondrous in his shade. Death 

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will never brag. Again, here, we have a personal

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occasion. Death is being portrayed like a person 

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who's arrogant, conceited. Look at them. I

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inflicted all of them dead. And again, this is a 

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biblical image. This is an image from the Bible

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when death, when like a lot of people who were 

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killed by death will be like in his shade. So

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Shakespeare is using a biblical image here, and 

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this is another example of allusion.

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Now, nothing will happen to you when, and he's

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trying to explain for us, when in eternal lines to

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time thou growest. You know, thou grossed. Again 

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here, we have a metaphor. And this metaphor, as we

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said, is what? Yeah, I know it's a metaphor. What

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is the metaphor here? Like, let's explain it. Like

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the summer of his friend will grow. Where will it

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grow? In Gaza? No, where? In his poetry. Have you

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ever seen like something growing in poetry? Okay,

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let's plant a tree in poetry Shakespeare, in the,

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you know, the poetry of Shakespeare. Yes. So here, 

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I think the image is taken from botany from, you

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know, you know, in botany, in agriculture, there

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is something called grafting. What is grafting? It

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means you are joining two things. So here, the 

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image is like this. Shakespeare's poetry is being

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portrayed like what? Like a tree. And the summer

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of his friend is like graft, a piece which is

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joined. And then after a while, it sprouts. You

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know what's with sprouts? It sprouts, grows. It 

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grows, you know, it grows and then it continues 

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growing. So this is a grafting metaphor, like you 

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graft, you join two parts, you know, they might

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not be, you know, homogeneous, they might be 

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heterogeneous, but once they are grafted, they

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become homogeneous and they grow together. So look

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how Shakespeare was analyzing his sentiment. Look

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how Shakespeare was recording. And all of this in

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a musical, in a sonnet form. So there are many 

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things to consider here. 

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When in eternal lines to time thou growest, So

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long as men, and Shakespeare after all of this,

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you know, has concluded the argument. So the

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argument started by Shakespeare's concern about, 

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you know, then he went through all the

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difficulties, which would make him like decline to

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compare. And finally, he's giving the conclusion

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how tough or how fierce the destruction will be.

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How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea? So 

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Shakespeare, as we said, this poem is full of 

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rhetorical questions. How many questions do we 

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have? Five rhetorical questions. How with this 

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rage shall beauty hold a plea? So Shakespeare is 

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wondering, you know, is wondering about, like, the 

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vulnerability, the invalidness of, let's say, the 

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beauty or love of his friend. What will it do, you 

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know? It will be helpless, exactly like a helpless 

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defendant in a court, who is unable to defend 

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himself in front of a very despotic executor.

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How would this Rachel beauty hold a plea, whose 

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action is no stronger than a flower? Look here.

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Yeah, a flower is very delicate. So this shows how 

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the beauty of his friend is very delicate. He's 

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comparing it to a flower. And if we think about 

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the disparity, the difference between the delicacy 

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of the beauty friend and the toughness and the 

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roughness and the, you know, of time, we started 

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like to say, oh my God, this is too much. whose 

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action is no stronger than a flower? Or how shall 

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summer's honey breath hold out?" Again, it is 

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summer's honey breath, which is very delicate, 

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which is very, you know, the beauty, very soft.

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This is, again, it is a metaphor. Yes. Against the 

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reckful siege of battering days, you know? And we 

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saw the image of the battering days. And we, 

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because we live You know, in a siege, we 

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understand what is a siege, how tough is the 

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siege, you know? And this siege is, you know, very 

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frightening. We saw how the battering days will be 

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like soldiers holding big hammers trying, like, to 

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deter or stop, you know, this lovely, this 

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delicate, fragile, you know, beauty, like, to go 

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out, to leave. when rocks impregnable are not so 

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stout what I like here in this line you know if we 

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look here when rocks you know against the reckful 

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siege of battering days when rocks impregnable now 

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impregnable we have three Three stresses. And 

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this, you know, because the whole poem is written 

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in iambic pentameter. When, you know, it's written 

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in iambic pentameter. And here, so Shakespeare 

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tried to vary it. He's tried to vary it in order, 

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like, to equate, you know, the sound and the 

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meaning. So here, the battering days, boom, boom, 

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boom. So he's equating this triple hammer blow 

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with, you know, the three stressed syllables. So 

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this is, like, common. And here, a not-so-stout. 

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You know, again here. You know? Nor case of steel 

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so strong. You know? Again. But time decays. Or 

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for, you see, or for meditation where I lack shall 

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times best jewel from times chest lie head. You 

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know? Here, again, again, you know? Or what 

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strong, what? Strong hand. Swift-foot bag. So 

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Shakespeare's, you know, like, started to variate 

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in this. Why? To make, you know, the sound like a 

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little bit equivalent or parallel with the meaning 

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itself. Because here, as you see, it is very 

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tough. It is very, you know, noisy. So when rocks 

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impregnable are not so stout, nor gates of steel 

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so strong, but time decays. Very frightening. When 

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you think the beauty of the friend or, you know, 

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the memory of the friend, like, will be faced with 

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all these powers of destruction, you become very 

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intimidated. You become very afraid. And 

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Shakespeare, even Shakespeare also said, Oh, 

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fearful meditation, because this is very 

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intimidating, isn't it? Where are you?" He started 

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to ask, what will, you know, time's best jewel? 

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You know, time here is life, and the best jewel of 

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life is the beauty itself. Well, you know what 

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will happen? What is the fate? So he was, you 

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know, pondering. He was thinking about, you know, 

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the beauty of, you know, the fate, you know, of 

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this beauty. What will happen to it? Shall time's 

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best jewel from time's chest lie head? Or what?

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Strongly. Look here, he is looking for, he's 

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seeking what? A hand. A hand which will deter, 

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hold. You know what's mean deter? Repulse. The 

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swift thought of time. Yeah, like to hold it back, 

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to stop it, to deter. So he was looking for 

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something. Now, when you are in trouble, in a 

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crisis situation, in a dilemma, you start to look 

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for something from the outside. You start to seek 

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an aid. And Shakespeare here was wondering, what 

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can I do? Or what strong hand can hold his swift 

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foot back? Or who? who's spoiled of beauty. Now I 

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need somebody, I need somebody who can stop this, 

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you know, the beauty. you know, can forbid. Of 

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course, we as Muslims, we can answer these 

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questions easily, you know, by saying, Allah 

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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala can, you know, can stop all of 

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this. Shakespeare was trying to think of a power, 

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you know, but he suddenly say, or who his bowl of 

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beauty can forbid? Oh, none, none of these, except 

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Unless this miracle, what is this? This poem, his 

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poetry. This have might, might, power. Unless my 

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poetry has this power. To do what? That, he's 

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explaining it. That in a black ink, my love may 

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still shine bright. Wow. So very affirmative.

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Very, he, I think he's bragging. He's bragging.

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He's, you know, sure that his poetry will, you 

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know, immortalize him. 

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You see, this is Shakespeare. Again, now we might, 

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and this is like part of your job. is to see whom 

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he was addressing in the sonnet. In the two 

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sonnets, whom he was addressing. Was he 

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addressing, you know, the dark lady? Was he 

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addressing a friend? Who's this friend? You know?

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This is very important to consider because I want 

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you like to have more knowledge, awareness about 

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Shakespeare's sonnets. So these are one, these two 

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sonnets, they are popular sonnets. However, you 

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can, for comparison, look at sonnets and learn 

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more about Shakespeare by yourself, okay? Any 

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question, please? Do you have any question? 

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Okay. Thank you very much.