Sonnet 18, also known as "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day," was written by William Shakespeare and addressed to an unknown male subject. The sonnet is celebrated for its timeless praise of the beloved's beauty and enduring nature.
The poem reads: 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 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.
It means that although earthly beauty fades like a summer's day, it can be made immortal when described in "eternal lines", which is to say in a poem. this poem was written in 1698
It is the eighteenth poem within the book entitled Shakespeare's Sonnets, first published in 1609. Its first line is "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
Possibly. He was alive in 1595. We have no idea when he wrote the sonnets.
Earl Southampton
The dominant image in Sonnet 18 is light. Sonnet 18 was written by William Shakespeare and is sometimes referred to as Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Sonnet 18, also known as "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" was written by William Shakespeare in the 16th century, during the Elizabethan era.
Sonnet 18 and sonnet 116
English, of course. Shakespeare wrote in English.
Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day) is addressed to a young man (probably). Since the poem was originally written around 1590, it is likely that the original addressee of the sonnet has since died.
The sonnet features an external rather than an internal audience, as the speaker addresses and describes the qualities of the beloved. The sonnet is written to immortalize the beauty of the beloved through the words of the speaker.
sonnet 18
Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day) is addressed to a young man (probably). Since the poem was originally written around 1590, it is likely that the original addressee of the sonnet has since died.
The speaker of Sonnet 18 is Shakespeare, and the subject of the sonnet is the beauty and immortality of the beloved, often interpreted as a reflection of the power of poetry.
Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18" ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"), "Sonnet 130" ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"), and Petrarch's "Sonnet 90" ("She used to let her golden hair fly free").
Yes The sonnet is dripping with metaphor
Sometime between 1582 and 1609 (when it was first published).