sonnet # 97

How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December’s bareness everywhere!
And yet this time removed was summer’s time,
The teeming autumn big with rich increase,
Bearing the wanton burthen of the prime,
Like widowed wombs after their lords' decease.
Yet this abundant issue seemed to me
But hope of orphans, and unfathered fruit.
For summer and his pleasures wait on thee,
And thou away, the very birds are mute.
Or if they sing, ’tis with so dull a cheer
That leaves look pale, dreading the winter’s near.

현대영어로 해석된 97번 소넷

My separation from you has felt just like winter, since
you’re what makes the year pleasurable! I’ve felt very cold,
and the days have seemed very dark, and everything has
been as barren as in December! And yet the time we’ve
been apart was actually summer, then fall, the harvest-time
when nature gives birth to crops planted in the springlike a
woman giving birth after her husband has died. And these
abundant fruits of nature seemed like hopeless orphans to
me, because summer and summer’s pleasures all depend
on you, and, with you away, even the birds are silent. Or if
they sing, they do it so dismally that the leaves grow pale
with fear, dreading the fact that winter’s almost here.

셰익스피어 97번 소넷은 제가 좋아하는 'Jennifer Warnes'가 부른 노래 'cold enough to snow'의 가사와 매우 유사한 무드를 가지고 있습니다.
실제 의미하는 바는 미묘하게 다를 수도 있겠지만, 이 소넷을 읽는 순간 이 노래가 자연스럽게 떠올랐습니다.
세상에 완전히 새로운 창작이란 없다고 생각합니다. 서로서로 영감을 주고 받는 것이죠.
하지만 최초에 누군가에게 영감을 불러일으킬 창조성과 감성을 가지고 있다면, 그건 정말 축복입니다.
그리고 끊임없이 다른 차원으로 자신을 채찍질하는 사람들.

Where did summer go
How'd I miss the change of season
All at once the wind blows rough
It's cold enough to snow

In the street below
People laugh, they've got no reason
Don't they know
It's cold enough to snow

When we were together
And you were staying
Funny but the weather
Still felt like May in mid December

Now the chill wind blows
Sunny skies are only teasing
You won't show
And it's cold enough to snow

On the radio
There's a man says
It ain't freezing
What's he know
He didn't watch you go

Now the sun can't shine
If it wants to, fine
But it's cold enough to snow