Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day

Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day
Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare

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,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.

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.

I am "analyzing" this poem for figurative language. This poem compares someone (we do not know who) to a summer day, this is a great example of metaphors in a poem. I dont really think I relate to this poem at all. Although I do like summer days I wouldnt compare myself to one. The only reason I choose this poem was because I was forced to choose a poem with figurative language at the last minute.


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