Shakespeares Sonnet 18

A detailed Summary of Shakespeares Sonnet 18

William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 is part of a group of 126 sonnets

Shakespeare wrote that are addressed to a young man of great beauty and promise.

In this group of sonnets, the speaker urges the young man to marry and perpetuate

his virtues through children, and warns him about the destructive power of time,

age, and moral weakness. Sonnet 18 focuses on the beauty of the young man, and

how beauty fades, but his beauty will not because it will be remembered by

Shakespeare starts the poem with a metaphoric question in line one asking if

he should compare the man to a summer's day. This asks if he should compare the

beauty of a summer's day to the beauty of the young man about whom

Shakespeare is writing. Line two of this poem states "Thou art more lovely and

more temperate." Temperate is used as a

saying that the summer also does not last as long as the man's beauty therefore it

cannot be compared to it. Line five states another imperfection of the summer.

This poem that Shakespeare wrote, in the octave, describes how all beauty

synonym for moderate by the author. In

the speaker. Line three, "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May," tells

be compared to a summer's day. In line four the speaker adds to this thought by

that, as said in line five, sometimes the sun is too hot. In lines seven and eight the

Approximate Word count = 572
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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