Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet 18) William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616

in #poetry5 years ago

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 dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
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But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

In this poem the poet couldn't compare the love he has for his woman to the of the summer days because it will fade away with no time but only the eternal summer shall live forever. He believes that once human being continues to breathe then they will surely appreciate his work which invariably gets to appreciate his lover too. Meaning that act is life.

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