sonnet 18 - shakespear

The speaker of the poem opens with a question that is addressed to the beloved, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” This question is comparing her to the summer season. During this season is when the flowers are blooming, trees are full of leaves, the weather is warm, and generally it is known as an enjoyable season. The following eleven lines in the poem are also dedicated to similar comparisons between the beloved and summer days. In line 2 and 3, the speaker explains what mainly separates the young woman from the summer’s day: she is “more lovely and more temperate.” (Line 2) Summer’s days tend towards extremes: they are sometimes shaken by “rough winds” (Line 3) which happens. However in line 4, the speaker gives the feeling again that the summer months are often to short by s

An important theme of the sonnet, as it is and important theme throughout much of the poetry in general, is the power of the speaker’s poem to defy time and last generations and eventually for all of eternity. This beloved’s “eternal summer” shall not fade precisely because it is embodied in the sonnet: “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,” (Line 13) the speaker writes in the sonnet, “So long lives this, and gives life to thee.” (Line 14) With this the speaker is able to accomplish what many have done in poetry and that is to give the gift of an eternal life to someone that they believe is special and outshines everyone else around them. Perhaps it is because of physical beauty that the speaker see, but believe that is more because of the internal beauty as seen in line 2, “Thou art more lovely and more temperate”, that the beloved is deserving to live on forever.

aying, “And summer’s lease hath too short a date.” In the summer days, the sun, “the eye of heaven” (Line 5), often shines “too hot,” or too dim, “his gold complexion dimmed” (Line 6), that is there are many hot days during the summer but soon the sun begins to set earlier at night because autumn is approaching. Summer is moving along to quickly

Some topics in this essay:
, live forever, line 2, eyes see”, line 13, see” line 13, “so breathe eyes, eyes see” line, breathe eyes see”, see” line, sonnet 18, lovely temperate”, beloved woman, summer speaker, summer days,