Shakespeare ensures that the object will be forever in human memory, saved from the oblivion that accompanies death. He achieves this through his verse, believing that, as history writes itself, his object will become one with time.
The last lines reaffirms the poet's hope that as long as there is breath in mankind, his poetry too will live on, and ensure the immortality of his muse.
Shakespeare claims that the object of his sonnet in , Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day, will be immortal because of the written word. His beloved's summer will continue as long as there are people alive to read the sonnet.
the sonnet will be read, and its subject thereby visualized far beyond the deaths of anyone then living - indeed, for "so long as men can breathe, or eyes can see".
Because they're both awesome writers
Because Shakespeare wrote a poem about him. Which is kind of true since we still read the poem even if we aren't exactly sure who it is about. (Could be Henry Wriothesley who we would otherwise have forgotten all about.)
Cervantes chose to write in Spanish because that was the language his readers knew. Shakespeare wrote in English because that was the language his audiences understood. Italian writers wrote and still write in Italian because that is what language their readers read.
Shakespeare claims that the object of his sonnet in , Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day, will be immortal because of the written word. His beloved's summer will continue as long as there are people alive to read the sonnet.
the sonnet will be read, and its subject thereby visualized far beyond the deaths of anyone then living - indeed, for "so long as men can breathe, or eyes can see".
Because they're both awesome writers
In Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare is writing about a beautiful woman and comparing her beauty to a summer day. The message is, that because he is immortalizing her beauty in verse, it will never really fade. In other words, art, such as poetry, lives on long after physical beauty is gone.
Because Shakespeare wrote a poem about him. Which is kind of true since we still read the poem even if we aren't exactly sure who it is about. (Could be Henry Wriothesley who we would otherwise have forgotten all about.)
Sonnet 18 - Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day - is one of Shakespeare's 'fair youth' sonnets: a sequence of sonnets Shakespeare wrote to a young man which alternate between complimenting him on how beautiful he is, and urging him to marry and have children (because it is a waste when beautiful people die without children). Sonnet 18 compares the young man to a summer day; but suggests that the young man is better - partly because the weather in summer is changeable, but most of all because summer passes, but the young man will live forever (in Shakespeare's poem). It is unusual among the 'fair youth' sonnets inasmuch as it doesn't overtly suggest that the young man needs to get married and have children (since he can achieve immortality through Shakespeare's poem). Does this mean we should take it at face value (rarely a good idea with anything written by Shakespeare)? I don't think it does.
She is immortal so she never dies... shes immortal because she is a goddess and gods and goddesses are immortal...
Zeus didn't die because he was an immortal and immortal never dies.
Because you're immortal.
Julia Summers has written: 'For you ... because you're my friend'
She is immortal, because she is queen of the Underworld, daughter of Demeter and wife to Hades.
because people want to be immortal so they can live forever and not get hurt or killed if you die thats a problem i want to be immortal