셰익스피어의 소네트 이해하기: 주제와 해석

### 셰익스피어의 소네트 살펴보기: 우정, 아름다움, 그리고 해석
* 📜 이 토론은 셰익스피어의 소네트, 특히 **"그대를 여름날에 비유할까요?"**로 시작하여 애정 대상의 아름다움에 대한 화자의 감탄을 강조하는 **소네트 18**을 중심으로 진행됩니다.
* 💖 이 소네트는 **사랑하는 사람이 여름보다 더 아름답다**고 주장하며 궁극적으로 시를 통해 아름다움이 불멸할 수 있음을 암시하는 확장된 은유 역할을 합니다.
* 📅 1609년에 출판된 이 소네트는 **154편의 시**로 구성되어 있으며, **첫 124편은 나이든 남자와 젊고 매력적인 남자의 관계**에 초점을 맞추고 있으며, 종종 깊은 우정으로 해석되기도 합니다.
* 🔍 비평가들은 셰익스피어의 섹슈얼리티에 대해 논쟁을 벌였는데, 일부 비평가들은 젊은 남성을 향한 **'넘치는 칭찬'**에 주목하며, 확실한 증거는 없지만 **동성애 관계의 증거**로 해석하기도 합니다.
* 📖 후자의 소네트는 보다 전통적인 역동성으로 전환하여 **성숙한 남자와 여자 사이의 복잡한 연애 관계**를 탐구하고 **사랑의 시련**을 강조합니다.
* 🌈 초기 소네트의 가장 중요한 주제는 **우정이 어떻게 기쁨과 고통을 동시에 가져다주며 삶을 의미 있게 만드는지** 보여주는 우정의 심오한 본질에 대해 이야기합니다.
* 📚 셰익스피어를 처음 접하는 분이라면 **길이가 짧은 소네트**부터 시작하는 것이 좋지만, 초기 현대 언어와 구조의 어려움에 대비해야 합니다.
* 💬 궁극적으로 셰익스피어의 소네트는 **정서적 깊이와 지속적인 관련성**으로 인해 문학사에서 가장 중요한 시로 인정받고 있습니다.

셰익스피어의 소네트는 세대를 뛰어넘는 우정과 사랑의 복잡성을 아름답게 탐구합니다.

have you memorized any of these? What did you say these 14 line poems are? What are they called again? Oh, the sonnets. Have you memorized any yourself? Uh, I'm not sure if I could give you a whole one. Um, I give you parts of some. You know, there's the famous, I believe it's Sonnet 18. You know, 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 that's about where I'm fing, but it's an extended comparison between the speaker and the object of his affection. And the argument of the poem is that the object of his affection is even more magnificent than the most exquisite summer day. Um, it's a very beautiful poem. 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 but sometime too hot. The eye of Heaven shines and often in 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 owest. Owest right nor shall death brag thou werst in his shade. Though wander in his shade when in Eternal Lions to time thou growest. So long as men can breathe or e eyes can see. So long live this and this gives life to thee. Forgive the poor rendition of that not at all no that was beautifully done um beautifully done. All right help me like Shakespeare pretend you got five minutes give me something oh I mean other than his life. Oh I I I've been accused of too difficult no I've been accused of ruining this play for many people because so I have to say a few words about about the sonnets and then we'll talk about this way. Yeah yeah so the sonnets were published in 16009 and

154 of them, and it's manifestly clear that the first 124, I believe, are set within this context. There's an older man who's addressing a much younger and really good-looking man, and they have some type of relationship with each other. At very least, they're friends, but it's clear that the speaker is much older. This sonnet, you're saying, and this is one of them, right? It's one of the most famous of all the sonnets because of the famous opening line. And so the speaker, who is clearly an older man, and he's also very clearly a poet because it's self-referential. He talks about even there. He says, So long lives this, and this lives life to thee. The resolution of the problem of this poem is that, Oh, you're so beautiful and so good-looking. You're even more beautiful than nature. But oh, you know time and decay are going to come for you. But how are we going to resolve

this you will live forever. Your beauty will live forever. Be in my poem. Oh, so that's on its face. How do you know he's talking to a fow? Well, this is where I say if you just sit down and read all of the sonnets. Yeah, this is firmly embedded in a sequence where I mean if you read the first one through 17. Quite a few of them are the speaker speaking to the young man begging him. Isolated? No, no. This is part of a sequence. And that's where many people have told me you've ruined this. And I thought this was a love poem. Do yes. And I thought well if it is a love poem it's not the love poem you think it is. Okay, so is there a reason? Is that one of the reasons people accuse him of being a homosexual? Rejoice in the fact that he may be a homosexual. Was he a homosexual? Like with many things in Shakespeare, there's on its face in his life. There's no evidence to think he was. If you if if

if we did another show when I walked you through all the sections in some of the first 124 sonnets. Um, you could see why people might come to that conclusion. I mean, they're not overt references to, you know, anything crass, but the level of euse praise for this young man. And one, I'm probably badly paraphrasing. He calls him, he calls him Master Mistress of my heart. You know, I mean, this, it's this effusive, high, elaborate language praising the beauty and just gushing over the friendship with the youth, the fair youth. So, this is going to give ample evidence for those who would like to. So, my position on this is that all we have are these poems, and we have nothing from the man's life to suggest he was a bisexual, he was a homosexual. There's nothing there. There's just what the poems give us. Um, and there are, as with all things Shakespeare, multiple ways to try and come at this. Uh, there are those

who will argue that these were elaborate bids at patronage for a young aristocrat. The most often referenced names are William Herbert, the Earl of Pembroke, to whom the first folio was dedicated, and Henry Rosley, the Earl of Southampton, to whom Shakespeare dedicated two other lengthy poems. So, that I think is a credible way to look at this excessive praise and also this, you know, really you want to get married, you know, you're such a good-looking person, but this elaborate, this hyperbolic excessive rhetoric could be explained in that way, and someone might counter it, but I think it was W. H. Auden, the great poet W. H. Auden. It might have been him. One of the critics is of the opinion that Shakespeare never could have intended for these to be published because they're so deeply personal, and the affection between the old and the young is so, it really is quite moving. I mean, if you just take it on its face and so on, it

could be a bit for patronage. Maybe it wasn't a bit for so. It just leaves the door wide open as in Shakespeare with where to go with it. But one thing that is true is it's 124 sonnets of an older man to a younger man. Wow. So, but that's a specific one. We just that I just read is there's nothing in that specific Sonet. No. Yeah. So I can memorize this and to my wife and I'll be what you're saying as long as you know if everybody if anybody ever really calls you on it you can say well I do realize it was about the fair youth the young guy. But for my purposes and but the other thing I I want to say about the sonnets is um now so from about 125 to 154 is what's clearly a heterosexual man and a woman and it's it's it's it's an older. It's it's a mature man meaning just an adult and his

his mistress could be his wife, or probably not his wife, but that's about your more traditional man-woman, but it's not about sort of young love; it's about a grown man and a grown woman, and there's a lot of very deep references to the trials and travails of mature people being in a romantic relationship in those sonnets 1 through 124. When I teach them to the students, I'd like to point out, if you set aside the preoccupation that Shakespeare must have been homosexual because of all this, if you set that aside, they are poems about the absolute power of friendship because they're not just all about the beauty of the fair youth; they're about the relationship that they have and how friendship can be deeply painful to someone, but also how friendship can just be restorative and rejuvenating, the thing that makes life worth living. So, I would say in the big picture, sonnets 1-24.

or so are they're really about friendship, even though it's an unequal friendship, and it's an older man and a younger man. But they're really about, um, I recently taught the whole cycle to our students, and they really began to pick up on this, that, and you know it if you've been friends with someone for more than a week. You go six months, you go a year, you go 10 years, you know that relationship goes through all types of ups and downs, and you know you feel hurt, you feel betrayed, you feel you know so happy about this friend. This friend saves you and gives you hope. I mean all of that is in these sonnets, so they're really very beautiful that way. You know if you could bracket the uh would that be your recommendation then to someone like myself who'd like to get into Shakespeare is to begin with some of his sonnets since they're shorter and less complicated presumably than his plays. Uh um a provisional yes but you you have to

get used to reading early modern sonnets, and it will be like coming to line. You're not going to enjoy it the first couple of times. You're going to need to become accustomed to the form of the sonnet. But once you become accustomed to it, that's right. It's sort of like people who read modern theology books and then try to read the Suma for the first time. They're shocked not just by the Aristotelian lingo he uses but the structure. I often talk with my students; one example would be someone like Robert Frost. I love Robert Frost's poetry. He is a deep and subtle poet, but you could put Robert Frost in front of anybody, and you just get drawn in. I mean, his language is very personable; the language is very inviting and simple. Elizabethan poetry is not like this. You have to sort of get used to the example of St. Thomas is pretty good. You have to

get used to his rhetoric. No matter what you read, you know this Scholastic Latin rhetoric. You have to become accustomed to it, and once you begin to see what's at the core of it, it's very powerful. So, I would say the same is true with the sonnets, that it, you know, for I, I, I think for it would be the type of thing that would be good to get some guidance on, to sort of sit on with someone who can teach you a little bit about it, and so on. But um, but I would say um, again, I'm with Chesterton on here. The Democracy of the dead has voted that these are some of the most moving poems um, you know, in world history, and they have a great deal to teach us. Hey, thank you so much for watching. Before you go, do us a favor, leave a comment, let us know what you thought of the video, like, and subscribe.

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셰익스피어의 소네트: 간략한 개요

1609년에 출판된 셰익스피어의 소네트는 154편의 시로 구성되어 있으며, 첫 124편은 젊은 남자를 다룬 시입니다.

소네트 18은 가장 유명한 소네트 중 하나로, 청년을 향한 화자의 애정을 여름날에 비유한 시입니다.

이 시는 청년의 아름다움이 자연보다 더 웅장하며 화자는 시의 힘을 통해 불멸을 선사한다고 주장합니다.

셰익스피어의 소네트 시퀀스와 그 해석

셰익스피어의 소네트, 특히 첫 17편은 화자가 한 청년에게 간청하는 내용을 담고 있어 동성애 관계에 대한 해석을 불러일으켰습니다.

청년의 아름다움을 묘사하는 데 사용된 넘치는 칭찬과 정교한 언어는 셰익스피어의 성에 대한 추측을 불러일으켰습니다.

그러나 셰익스피어의 생애에서 이러한 해석을 확인할 수 있는 구체적인 증거는 없기 때문에 이 시는 다양한 해석이 가능합니다.

셰익스피어의 소네트 헌정 및 주제

셰익스피어의 소네트에서 과도한 칭찬은 특히 펨브룩 백작 윌리엄 허버트와 사우샘프턴 백작 헨리 로즐리에게 후원을 요청하는 것으로 여겨지곤 합니다.

소네트의 지극히 개인적인 성격 때문에 일부 비평가들은 셰익스피어가 이 소네트를 출판할 의도가 없었다고 주장하기도 합니다.

이 컬렉션에는 나이든 남자가 젊은 남자에게 보내는 124편의 소네트가 포함되어 있으며, 후기 소네트(125~154편)는 나이든 남자와 여자 사이의 이성애 관계에 초점을 맞추고 있습니다.

셰익스피어의 소네트 1~24는 성숙한 연애 관계의 복잡한 역학 관계와 우정의 힘을 탐구합니다.

이 시들은 우정의 고통과 기쁨을 강조하며 우정이 주는 회복과 활력을 강조합니다.

나이 든 남자와 젊은 남자 사이의 불평등한 우정은 장기적인 관계의 기복을 반영하는 중심 주제입니다.

초기 현대 소네트에 익숙해지기

초기 현대 소네트를 읽는 것은 처음에는 그 형식과 구조에 적응하는 데 시간이 필요하기 때문에 어려울 수 있습니다.

로버트 프로스트와 같은 현대 시인들의 매력적인 언어와 달리 엘리자베스 시대의 시는 더 복잡하고 미묘한 수사를 담고 있습니다.

소네트의 핵심을 이해하고 안내를 받으면 세계 역사상 가장 감동적인 시 중 하나로 꼽히는 소네트의 강력한 영향력을 발견할 수 있습니다.