Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?) by William Shakespeare

 

Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?)

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 ow’st;

Nor shall death brag thou wander’st 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.

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Who wrote the poem "Sonnet 18"?

William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616)

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor of the Renaissance era. He is regarded as the greatest writer in the English language, often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon." Few public records remain about his private life, causing speculations about his physical appearances, sexuality, religious beliefs and the authorship of some of his works. His works demonstrate a wide range of human emotions and conflicts, touching so many people's minds throughout the world for over 400 years.

Sonnet 18 explanation

"Sonnet 18" is one of the most famous of the 154 sonnets written by Shakespeare. In the poem, comparing the young man with a summer's day, the speaker notes that the young man has better qualities than a summer's day. The speaker also notes the changing and diminishing nature of a summer's day and states that the young man will live forever in the poem as long as it can be read. There is an irony in the poem: it is not the young man but the description of him that is eternalized, but the poem contains few despcriptions of the young man, whereas it contains vivid and lasting descriptions of a summer's day, which the young man is supposed to outlive.