SONE 66:

Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,
As, to behold desert a beggar born,
And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,
And purest faith unhappily forsworn,
And guilded honour shamefully misplaced,
And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,
And right perfection wrongfully disgraced,
And strength by limping sway disabled,
And art made tongue-tied by authority,
And folly doctor-like controlling skill,
And simple truth miscall'd simplicity,
And captive good attending captain ill:
Tired with all these, from these would I be gone,
Save that, to die, I leave my love alone.

William Shakespeare

This is the problem...The dilemma unsolved of the century.The sociotragic topic.This the true love.He is great poet and playwriter.

could someone translate this poem from English to Turkish Language?I don't know good English.

Slavica,
Thank you for the translation.

to the title ; excellent,exciting,amazing and charming

i love william shakespeare's work.

Charming indeed

Ahh Niobe sone 66

Very good work. Have to say I'm a big fan of shakespeare myself, as you already know

Teşekkür ederiz, Slavica.

Thank you, Kai (Natasha)...

Thank you for the link Slavica - unfortunately it does not include a Turkish translation for my favourite sonnet (Sonnet 18). Can any one help?

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:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

Ahhhhhhhh even reading it to myself, I love the sounds and patterns of the words. So beautiful

Your wish is my command, Aenigma

Oh thank you Slavica! I really wanted to share it

Am I alone in finding poetry as emotional as some people find music? That Sonnet really affects me. I think that sometimes it's easier to write beautiful poetry when you are sad. I am in awe of anyone who could write such beautiful words of joy in praise of someone's beauty.

Ok ok enough emotion - back to "hard nose" Aenigma Grrrrr!

excellent, beautiful, fantastic!!!

In poetry, each translation is an adaptation, even if a poem is being translated into a similar language. It means both art of metrical composition - versification - and transliteration - decoding of symbols, metaphores etc. Each (real) poem has three "layers" at least - metrics, the sound component (alliterations, rhymes etc.) and the very meaning. The poem loses its beauty if it's translated "verbatim". (Aenigma will know what am I talking about... she liked one of my translations.) I would like to mention Shakespeare's Sonnet 144 (one of his best, by my opinion):

Sonnet CXLIV

Two loves I have of comfort and despair,
Which like two spirits do suggest me still:
The better angel is a man right fair,
The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill.
To win me soon to hell, my female evil
Tempteth my better angel from my side,
And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,
Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend
Suspect I may, but not directly tell;
But being both from me, both to each friend,
I guess one angel in another's hell:
Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt,
Till my bad angel fire my good one out.


I have seen the words "a woman colour'd ill" translated in so many ways (not only in my language) that in the end I gave it a quite new meaning when I was translating it. I would like to see it in Turkish, but couldn't find it on web. If someone has it translated... thanks.

Some foreign friends say “The poem loses its beauty if it's translated ".
This is very classical and demagogy interpretation.Because these persons really don’t want
to learn scientific Turkish Language.If they want to learn Turkish Language and translate Shakespeare’s poems from English Language into Turkish Language would be appreciated.
Don’t tell “I guess we can all forgive Shakespeare for appearing in the Turkish Poetry and Literature forum, there are an awful lot of "home made" poems appearing here”.First of all, you translate and then talk.Türkiye have a lot of poets like Shakespeare.Çok bilmiş.

Tamam (Ok) arkadaş.I apoligize.

Tamam (Ok) arkadaş.I apologize...

You must study hard and find Turkish poets from the Turkish Literature (200-207) if you really want to learn them and if you really have a background.

You must study hard and find Turkish poets from the Turkish Literature (200-2007) if you really want to learn them and if you really have a background.

I apologize if I was not clear too. Anyway, I really think this thread could be very useful for learners. Hope our Turkish friends will help us to find more Sheakespeare in Turkish. I managed to find only a few Sheakespeare's Sonnets in Turkish on Internet. If you let me paraphrase great Bard:

"Tired with all these, for Sonnet 144 I cry..."

Niobe, thanks for this thread - and can you help me in finding this Sonnet?

I apologize Duda.
I have only Turkish Language plays and poetries of Sheakespeare in my library....
I could not find English Language poems.
But, KAI (Natasha) friend can find the sonnet it easily.
regards..

Thanks anyway for your efforts.

ABOUT SHAKESPEARE (1546 - 1616)=

1- Shakespeare's famous worldwide plays include HAMLET, KING LEAR, OTHELLO, THE TEMPEST, ROMEO AND JULIET, RICHARD III, ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL..

2- Shakespeare had a vocabulary of about 30,000 words.Even today, few people have a vocabulary of more than 15,000.

3- In Shakespeare's time, only six or seven million people spoke Englsh.

4- English is now an important language worldwide because of William Shakespeare's plays and poetries.

5-Literature is a most important phenomenon in the world.Literature comes first in the civilization.