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 dimmid;
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.
read the sonnet and analyze why the poet declines to compare his beloved with a summer's day.
a. the poet thinks that summer is more lovely and temperate.
b. the poet thinks that the gold complexion of his beloved will be dimmed
oc. the poet considers his beloved to be eternal and not temporary like the summer.