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Shall I compare thee to a summar's day? Sonnet 18 Of William Shakespeare Brief Explanation

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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.


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One of the most famous of Shakespearean sonnets and it can be regarded as the most famous lyric poem in English of all time.

William Shakespeare compared his friend with summer in the octave and finally concluded (in the Couplet) that summer may lose their beauty by chance or nature but a friend is eternal. He starts the poem with a question of comparison. “Shall I compare you to a summer’s day?  He is lovelier and more moderate than summer. Stormy winds shake the soft buds of May become the reason for the vanishing of summer’s beauty, summer does not long enough. Sometimes the sun shines too hot and his golden face dimmed by the cloud. Sometimes the most beautiful things lose their beauty either by some unforeseen circumstances or nature’s course change but a friend is forever and never loses the beauty because friendship is eternal. The poet personified the death with lifelessness and brag that even death cannot end the relationship between friends. Beauty never perishes because it is preserved in the poem, which will last forever, as long as a human eye opens. The poet highlighted the usefulness of art in this sonnet which is immortal.

 





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