Shakespeare question??

TO me, fair Friend, you never can be old,


For as you were when first your eye I eyed


Such seems your beauty still. Three winters' cold


Have from the forests shook three summers' pride;





Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd


In process of the seasons have I seen,


Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,


Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.





Ah! yet doth beauty, like a dial-hand,


Steal from his figure, and no pace perceived;


So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand,


Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceived:





For fear of which, hear this, thou age unbred,—


Ere you were born, was beauty's summer dead.








Okay, the last two lines, what do they mean?


and what is meant by this poem. I am not native speaking english, can you help?





Ah! yet doth beauty, like a dial-hand,


Steal from his figure, and no pace perceived;


So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand,


Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceived:





a little help here too please_


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Shakespeare question??
the last part ''ah yet doth beauty...''that though the beloved s beauty like time n age has reduced the youth but still the poet likes 2 think that the beloved has still retained that n has stood against time n also that may the poet himself has been wrong in getting that the beloved s youth n beauty have been effected by time.
Reply:The last two lines in the first one mean that once this person was born he or she was the most beautiful person ever. She even put beauty itself to shame. Thats why beauty's summer is dead.





The second part is kind of tricky. What I got out of it is "you're so beautiful that I don't believe it./ my eyes decieve me."





Hope I could help a little. You must be very intelligent to be able to tackle shakespeare with English not being your first language. Lol Most native English speakers have trouble understanding him.
Reply:You need to consider the sonnet as a whole --





He is writing to his dear friend (who by most accounts was male and very good looking -- do some research about the sonnets you will find the whole story)





He is telling his friend that age makes no difference and he is still as beautiful as he always has been -- that he will always be beautiful no matter how long they know each other





dial hand -- is a clock -- stands for time





If you check out Sparknotes they have a good study guide -- use it to get ideas -- don't just copy it.............





the language of Shakespeare can be dense, but if you work on it and read it out loud it makes more sense.


Don't stop at the end of a line -- read it as if it were straight prose -- use the puncuation to tell you where to pause or stop -- it may make better sense to you that way.

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