Shall I compare thee to a summers day- william shakespeare

Date Submitted: 08/19/2001 17:47:00
Category: / Literature / Poetry
Length: 3 pages (878 words)
In the sonnet 'Shall I compare Thee To A Summers Day' The poet William Shakespeare uses countless types of imagery but the question is which types can be interpreted as beautiful and which part would be interpreted as anything but beautiful. <Tab/>'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? <Tab/>Thou art more lovely and more temperate' Shakespeare starts this sonnet with a rhetorical question which …
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…love as only skin deep. In the last 2 lines which are rhyming couplets Shakespeare says 'So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this give life to thee' Love is a sacred thing between two people and in this line Shakespeare implicitly says in his text that there eternal love depends on other people remembering them when really their love should depend on the feelings that they share.
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