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Before Summer, Strong Winds Knock Buds Off of The Flowering Trees
Before Summer, Strong Winds Knock Buds Off of The Flowering Trees
his love is more desirable and has a more even temper than
summer
Before summer, strong winds knock buds off of the flowering
trees.
Summer goes by too quickly.
Because I've written these lines about you, even over time
as long as humans exist and can see
allowing the beloved to keep living as well.
should or will compare "thee" to a summer day.
He says that his beloved is more lovely and more even-tempered.
He then runs off a list of reasons why summer isn’t all that great:
winds shake the buds that emerged in Spring, summer ends too
quickly
and the sun can get too hot or be obscured by clouds.
He goes on, saying that everything beautiful
eventually fades by chance or by nature’s inevitable changes
Coming back to the beloved,
though, he argues that his or her summer
will his or her beauty fade away
Moreover, death will never be able to take the beloved
since the beloved exists in eternal lines
as long as humans exist and can see
the poem he’s writing will live on,
allowing the beloved to keep living as well.
Feel unwanted