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    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 wander’st in his shade‚ When

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    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 wander’st

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    Literary Analysis Shall I Compare Thee to Summers Day? In analyzing Sonnet 18‚ Shall I Compare Thee to Summers Day?‚ written by William Shakespeare it is important to know some of the background information on this poet and playwright. He wrote a hundred and fifty four sonnets‚ that cover three major themes: 1. how short every life is‚ 2. that beauty will always fade because it is not everlasting‚ and 3. the weaknesses of humans to give into earthy temptations. Most scholars refer to the

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    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. ’Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate’ Shakespeare starts this sonnet with a rhetorical question which he answers in the second line. In these two lines Shakespeare establishes his feelings for the woman that he loves

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    Jemina Linn Sörman Dr. VanBergen ENG 1102-05M Essay 2 23 February 2015 Undying Summer Someone once said that love is the best part of any story and that true love goes beyond the limits of death. That someone was completely right. William Shakespeare is known worldwide as the greatest poet of the English language‚ a title well deserved. He‚ who is the master of the early modern English‚ used the power of love in his writing as the pathway to his eternal life as an author. Even though human bodies

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    Shall I Compare Thee To a Summer’s Day? 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 oft’ is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines‚ By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d: But

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    Shall I Compare Thee (sonnet 18)’ Good Morning/ Good Afternoon teacher and my fellow class mates. Today I will be talking to you about ’Shall I Compare Thee’ by William Shakespeare. ’Shall I Compare Thee’ is about love and what two lovers feel for each other and how it is not affected by age. The way that Shakespeare is describing the woman is that she will never grow old and that her beauty will live on forever just like the poem will. ’Shall I Compare Thee’ was published in 1609 but was

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    Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Shall I compare you to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: You are more lovely and more constant: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May‚ Rough winds shake the beloved buds of May And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: And summer is far too short: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines‚ At times the sun is too hot‚ And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; Or often goes behind the clouds; And every fair from fair sometime

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    Word Count: 617 Teanna Armstrong Enc 1102 Essay #3 March 11‚ 2013 Sonnet‚ Theme‚ and Structure of “Shall I Compare thee to a Summer’s Day?” A sonnet’s structure has symbolism and it presents the theme in many poems of Literature. In the poem “Shall I Compare thee to a Summer’s Day?” by William Shakespeare happens to be a sonnet. To begin with‚ the sonnet mentioned above is called a Shakespearean sonnet. It is composed of three four-line quatrains and a concluding two-line couplet.

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    | Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day | William Shakespeare | | | Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day by William Shakespeare is a poem that compares a young men’s beauty with the magnificence and excitement of summer time. In the first quatrain‚ Shakespeare attempts to find something that compares to the beauty of the young man. Using metaphors‚ he compares the young man to a summer’s day‚ but realizes that the young man is both more beautiful and more amusing than summer. The

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