On the surface, the poem is simply a statement of praise about the beauty of the beloved; summer tends to unpleasant extremes of windiness and heat, but the ...

Praising an anonymous person (usually believed to be a young man), the poem tries out a number of clichéd metaphors and similes, and finds each of them wanting.

The speaker compares the subject to a summer's day, but notes that unlike summer, which fades, the subject's beauty is eternal. The sonnet uses vivid imagery ... Summary · Structure and Form · Detailed Analysis

The central metaphor is Sonnet 18 is the metaphor of the fair youth's beauty and a summer's day. Like a summer's day, the youth's beauty is resplendent. Sonnet 18" Summary · Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18...

2 нояб. 2023 г. · The opening line is almost a tease, reflecting the speaker's uncertainty as he attempts to compare his lover to a summer's day. The rhetorical ...

Line 1: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Indicates close relationship – special bond. Metaphor: Beloved compared to pleasant long summer. Summer is ...

19 дек. 2018 г. · His beloved is compared to summer in the first 8 lines as “more lovely and more temperate” than a summer's day, but at the start of the 9th ...

2 мар. 2024 г. · ... Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" instigate a colossal recurring imagery in the complete sonnet; that summer day is the natural world.

Sonnet 18 compares the subject of the poem with a day in summer, showing the subject to be superior when compared to something as inconsistent as a summer's day ...

30 дек. 2016 г. · In lines 5-8, Shakespeare continues his analysis of the ways in which the young man is better than a summer's day: sometimes the sun ('the eye ...