Abstract:
Fuzziness is the nature of natural language. The fuzzy beauty of poetry leaves endless room for the readers to interpret. This paper delves into the research of the fuzzy beauty in Shakespeare's
Sonnet 18 from three aspects: semantic fuzziness, image fuzziness and theme fuzziness. The choice of such fuzzy words as "lovely, temperate, short, hot, I, thee and this" makes it semantically fuzzy; its image fuzziness is well displayed by the author's wise combination of such individual image as summer, bud of may, eye of heaven and death, and the uncertainty and multiplicity resulting from its semantic and image fuzziness lead to its theme fuzziness.