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Dec 26, 2016 · In this post, we’re going to look beyond that opening line, and the poem’s reputation, and attempt a short summary and analysis of Sonnet 18 in terms of its language, meaning, and themes. The poem represents a bold and decisive step forward in the sequence of Sonnets as we read them. For the first time, the key to the Fair Youth’s ...
Sonnet 18 is the first poem in the sonnets not to explicitly encourage the young man to have children. The “procreation” sequence of the first 17 sonnets ended with the speaker’s realization that the young man might not need children to preserve his beauty; he could also live, the speaker writes at the end of Sonnet 17, “in my rhyme.”.
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 ...
But your eternal summer will not fade, Nor will you lose possession of the beauty you own, Nor will death be able to boast that you wander in his shade, When you live in eternal lines, set apart from time. As long as men breathe or have eyes to see, As long as this sonnet lives, it will give life to you. Previous.
The most explicit symbolism in Shakespeare’s poem is found in that image we encounter in the opening line of the poem: the comparison between the Fair Youth and a summer’s day. Summer has connotations of beauty, warmth, and happiness: sunny weather, the flowers and trees all in bloom, the skies clear. But for Shakespeare, the Fair Youth is ...
Sonnet 18 - "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" Sonnet 20 - "A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted" Sonnet 30 - "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought" Sonnet 52 - "So am I as the rich, whose blessed key" Sonnet 60 - "Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore" Sonnet 73 - "That time of year thou mayst in me behold"
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Summary: In Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18," summer is employed as a metaphor for youth and beauty, with the speaker comparing his beloved to a summer's day. However, summer is depicted as fleeting and ...
