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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Paraphrasing: from Verse to Prose
本週的改寫，請於修改完成後，儘快上傳張貼 。
格式如下：
Name: Alvin
Times: Thrice
Title: Sonnet XVIII
Paraphrasing:
(Be warned: This is a terrible example.) Summer is good, and daytime is good. You, however, are better than the two put together. I....
Name:Timmy Times: 3 Paraphrasing: My sweetheart, please do not say that I am unkind. Leaving you to fight the war is just like leaving the nunnery where I can find consolation. The truth is, I am going to fight the war, with strong faith. As a result, I can’t take care of you anymore. Do not wait for me; I am going to the war, to the uncertain destiny. The thing I am going to chase, to fight for is honor, an thing that you will adore, too. I could not love you well if I don’t love honor.
My love, you are finally back, after my long and tedious waiting. People may use a number of delightful images to compare to my joyful heart. You know what, they would never know the joy in my heart is far much greater than they could have imagined.
Hey, maidservant, please prepare all the luxurious decorations for the banquet. I could see these fine fabric, precious metal, and elaborately-made sculptures; however, none of these concrete luxuries could match my abstract joy. It is all because of your return, which revives my withered soul and brings my rebirth.
Sweet, don't say I'm mean and cruel to leave you. You're such an angel who makes me calm. However, I have to chase another girl - the War. Because I'm going to fight against the enemy. War is a matter of fate. The result, no one can tell. Therefore, i cannot love you. Even so, I still believe you will approve what I've decided.
My heart is happier than anything else like a singing bird, an apple tree with juicy fruits, and even like a care free shell idling in the peaceful sea. Please help me prepare a lot of silk, down, and other luxurious decorations. Please carve doves, peacocks, and pomegranates for me, too. Please decorate it with glittering leaves and fruits. All these are because my love is coming back to me, and it is the rebirth of my life.
Should I compare you to the wonderful moment of the year? You are far more beautiful and more tender than it. In addition, the wonderful moment is doomed to fade away someday. However, in my poem, this beautiful scene will not disappear, neither does your fairness. As long as people can see, you will live forever in my poem.
Your eyes and your kiss are far more fascinating than wine. Even if everyone else desires Zeus’ nectar, I will not give your beautiful eyes for it. Though you did not accept the wreath I sent you, the wreath did not wither but began to grow instead. It even smelled sweeter than ever as your breath had been left on it.
Paraphrasing: At that time, a traveler sees nothing in the desert which is empty and bare of life. In the past, there was a mighty and glorious king, Ozymandias. Even though he was a king who had great power over the whole country or even the world, he couldn’t maintain his wealth and power in the face of death. All his fame and status are buried in sands and all has become history. Nothing he can bring to the underworld which was once important to maintain his existence or define him as a glorious king last in the world.
Can you drink and cheer to me with your eyes looking at me, and I will reward you with my love. Or, can you give a kiss in the cup of wine for me, and I will be satisfied. Thus I will not look for anything else. My soul is thirsty and it needs you to quench it. If Zeus gave me the wine, I would not accept it for immortality, but I would want your attention and kiss only. I sent a rosy wreath to you. Though it doesn’t really honor or please you at all, I wish it not to die after the wreath is given to you. After you received it, you then only smelled and breathed on it. And you sent it back to me. Since then, the smell coming out from it is all of you rather than of itself.
Name:Nicky Times: 2 Title: To the virgins, to Make Much of Time Paraphrasing: Dear lady, please make good use of your time when you are still young and pretty. After all, you will inevitably become older and won't be pretty anymore. Therefore, don't be shy and have a good time when you are young. Otherwise, when time goes by, you will lose your chance and regret it for the rest of your life.
Name:Joan Times: 2 Title: To the virgins, to Make Much of Time Paraphrasing: The best age is when a girl is still young. However, as time goes by, you are inevitably getting older, and getting worse. Therefore, don’t be shy, and seize the day Have a good time when you are still young and pretty. Otherwise, once you have lost your youth, you may have to regret it forever.
Name:Timmy
ReplyDeleteTimes: 3
Paraphrasing:
My sweetheart, please do not say that I am unkind. Leaving you to fight the war is just like leaving the nunnery where I can find consolation. The truth is, I am going to fight the war, with strong faith. As a result, I can’t take care of you anymore. Do not wait for me; I am going to the war, to the uncertain destiny. The thing I am going to chase, to fight for is honor, an thing that you will adore, too. I could not love you well if I don’t love honor.
唷唷~~ 頭香!!XD
ReplyDelete★═☆═Philip═★═☆
ReplyDeleterevision: 1st
A Birthday (by Christina Rossetti)
My love, you are finally back, after my long and tedious waiting. People may use a number of delightful images to compare to my joyful heart. You know what, they would never know the joy in my heart is far much greater than they could have imagined.
Hey, maidservant, please prepare all the luxurious decorations for the banquet. I could see these fine fabric, precious metal, and elaborately-made sculptures; however, none of these concrete luxuries could match my abstract joy. It is all because of your return, which revives my withered soul and brings my rebirth.
Kelly C:
ReplyDeleteTo Lucasta, Going to the Wars
Sweet, don't say I'm mean and cruel to leave you. You're such an angel who makes me calm.
However, I have to chase another girl - the War. Because I'm going to fight against the enemy.
War is a matter of fate. The result, no one can tell. Therefore, i cannot love you. Even so, I still believe you will approve what I've decided.
My heart is happier than anything else like a singing bird, an apple tree with juicy fruits, and even like a care free shell idling in the peaceful sea.
ReplyDeletePlease help me prepare a lot of silk, down, and other luxurious decorations. Please carve doves, peacocks, and pomegranates for me, too. Please decorate it with glittering leaves and fruits. All these are because my love is coming back to me, and it is the rebirth of my life.
Richard
ReplyDeleteSonnet 18
from William Shakespeare
Should I compare you to the wonderful moment of the year? You are far more beautiful and more tender than it. In addition, the wonderful moment is doomed to fade away someday. However, in my poem, this beautiful scene will not disappear, neither does your fairness. As long as people can see, you will live forever in my poem.
Cynthia
ReplyDeletetwice
To Celia
Your eyes and your kiss are far more fascinating than wine. Even if everyone else desires Zeus’ nectar, I will not give your beautiful eyes for it. Though you did not accept the wreath I sent you, the wreath did not wither but began to grow instead. It even smelled sweeter than ever as your breath had been left on it.
Money
ReplyDeletetwice
Ozymandias
Paraphrasing:
At that time, a traveler sees nothing in the desert which is empty and bare of life. In the past, there was a mighty and glorious king, Ozymandias. Even though he was a king who had great power over the whole country or even the world, he couldn’t maintain his wealth and power in the face of death. All his fame and status are buried in sands and all has become history. Nothing he can bring to the underworld which was once important to maintain his existence or define him as a glorious king last in the world.
Jenny
ReplyDeleteonce
To Celia
Can you drink and cheer to me with your eyes looking at me, and I will reward you with my love. Or, can you give a kiss in the cup of wine for me, and I will be satisfied. Thus I will not look for anything else. My soul is thirsty and it needs you to quench it. If Zeus gave me the wine, I would not accept it for immortality, but I would want your attention and kiss only.
I sent a rosy wreath to you. Though it doesn’t really honor or please you at all, I wish it not to die after the wreath is given to you. After you received it, you then only smelled and breathed on it. And you sent it back to me. Since then, the smell coming out from it is all of you rather than of itself.
Trysha Hsu
ReplyDeletetwice
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Lake Isle of Innisfree laid a small house.
I shall plant my own crops, raise bee hives and live there alone.
But first of all I shall rise and leave the city for my dreamland.
There should be peace, slowly approaching upon me.
By the evening I’ll see birds flying home,
and hear the sound of the waves beating against the shore.
Standing by the building’s pavement, I hear the sound of waves from afar.
I’m tired of cities, and I want to go to Innisfree.
Name:Nicky
ReplyDeleteTimes: 2
Title: To the virgins, to Make Much of Time
Paraphrasing:
Dear lady, please make good use of your time when you are still young and pretty. After all, you will inevitably become older and won't be pretty anymore. Therefore, don't be shy and have a good time when you are young. Otherwise, when time goes by, you will lose your chance and regret it for the rest of your life.
Name:Joan
ReplyDeleteTimes: 2
Title: To the virgins, to Make Much of Time
Paraphrasing:
The best age is when a girl is still young.
However, as time goes by, you are inevitably getting older, and getting worse.
Therefore, don’t be shy, and seize the day
Have a good time when you are still young and pretty.
Otherwise, once you have lost your youth, you may have to regret it forever.