Shakespeare or Moss

I absolutely loved Shakespeare's Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? This poem really had some of my emotions flowing at the end of my reading it. Besides it just being simply beautiful it was impacting. As soon as I finished reading it I thought about someone I had lost and how cool it would be to have something to always remember them by or something that could keep them alive in spirit. Not saying that's a good thing but it is in a way relaxing. When your reading it you know that he is writing about someone dear to him that had past on. The way he describes and compares them to a summers day is so comforting that it makes you fall in love with the poem. or at least I did. It was extremely romantic when he says "Thou art more lovely and more temperate" (line 2)That line let you know how sweet his feeling were towards this person he was so passionately writing about. When you read a little more into the poem you see that his darker more depressing feelings start to creep through. You know when he is mentioning there passing by him saying "Fair from fair sometimes declines, By chance,or nature's changing course (Line 8). I think he is talking about how death is just part of natures course and that is what happened. Nature took its course and took away this deeply cared about person. My favorite and most memorable piece of the poem was the end when he said " So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this and this gives life to thee". Wow. I thought that was so well said. His point was that as long as there were living breathing people on the planet that this person would always be remembered and still living in a way because there would always be someone reading the poem. I loved that part because once I finished reading it I felt like I had helped him in exactly what he wanted. That person was remembered through the poem and they were living on even though in reality they were dead.It was all just beautiful. I felt like his intention was so successful and amazing because you see that one person can be remembered so easily as just by reading an old poem.
I didn't like Moss's Version as much. It was more cut and dry. He just seemed bitter. He was basically saying that everyone dies because we cant all stay young forever. I didn't really like how he said that "people break there necks or just drop dead" it was just so harsh. Then again I liked it in a way because it's a bit of a reality check. He is telling us that death is inescapable and it's happening no matter what. Both poems were good but I liked Shakespeare's version better because I felt like I got something from it. I mean shouldn't we at least get something out of the stuff we are reading. Maybe not,maybe we should just read it because it's required for this class. I just always thought poetry was supposed to do something for the reader. If so then I would definitely choose Shakespeare's version over Moss's. Moss's was to modern for me. I appreciated the feeling I got from Shakespeare's.