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SPRING
By William Shakespeare
WHEN daises pied, and violets blue,
And lady-smocks all silver-white,
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight,
The cuckoo then, on every tree,
Mocks married men, for thus sings he:
'Cuckoo! Cuckoo, cuckoo!' O word of fear,
Unpleasing to a married ear.
When shepherds pipe on oaten straws,
And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks,
When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws,
And maidens bleach their summer smocks,
The cuckoo then, on every tree,
Mocks married men, for thus sings he:
'Cuckoo! Cuckoo, cuckoo!' O word of fear,
Unpleasing to a married ear

الشرح

Spring


The poet (Shakespeare) is describing the beginning of the spring and he is talking about all that the spring has entered.


The meaning of the word:


Daisies: kind of flower has a yellow and white color.


Pied: to make it


Violet: name of flower.


Lady –smocks: name of flower.


Cuckoo: name of small bird.


Hue: color.


Meadow: fields.


Delight: happiness – good mood.


Paint: to color.


Mocks: to make fun of something.


Thus: like this.


Shepherd: person how is keeping the sheep.


Merry: happy.


Larks: another kind of bird.


Plowmen's: farmer who is farming.


Maiden: unmarried women.


Bleach: to clean something to make it white.


Unpleasing: unhappy.


Paraphrasing + Imagery:


When daisies pied and violet blue,


And lady-smocks all silver white


And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue


He started by describing the beautiful different kinds of flowers like the daisies, lady-smocks, violet, silver-white, and cuckoo-buds and how every flower is turning to it is beautiful color. Here we have a visual image.


Do paint the meadows with delight,


The different beautiful flowers with their different beautiful colors are painting the fields with happiness and joy. The image is a visual image.


The cuckoo then. On every tree,


The cuckoo which is a kind of birds is sitting on the tree in the fields. Here we have a visual image.


Mocks married men: for thus sings he.


"cuckoo!


Cuckoo, cuckoo!" O word of fear,


The cuckoo is having fun of the married men so he makes his song" Cuckoo! Cuckoo, Cuckoo!" which is a word of fear for the married men. The image is hearing image.


Unpleasing to a married ear!


This sound is un delightful to the married men to hear. The image is hearing image.

When shepherd pipe on oaten straws,
The shepherd is playing his own music on the oaten straws. The image is hearing image.
And merry larks are plowmen's clocks,
The larks which are a kind of birds are making a happy sounds, this sound becomes the clock of the farmer. . The image is hearing image.
When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws,
The poet is describing a different kind of animals and birds like (turtles, rooks, and daws). Here we have a visual image.
And maidens bleach their summer smocks,

Then he describes the image of the unmarried women who is having fun by pleasing their cloth.
Irony:
On line eight (O word of fear) there is an irony in this line because the poet uses the word (fear) even if it is not a fear feelings it is joking and having fun.
Figure of speech:
1) The poet uses personification in the first four lines when he said that the daises, the violet, and the lady-smocks are painting the fields as if they are humans who can paint.
2) There is a synecdoche in line four when the poet replaces the color with the feeling of delight.
3) There is a metonymy in line nine when the poet uses the word married ear but in the fact he means the married men.
Theme:
The poet is very optimistic in this poem. Spring is a symbol for the beginning of new live, it is like that every thing is reborn. Spring is the opposite of winter, it is warm and delightful. Every one and every creature is happy in the spring