As with any of Shakespeare’s sonnets, he relies upon allusio…
As with any of Shakespeare’s sonnets, he relies upon allusions, metaphors, similes, symbolism, and analogies to express his thoughts. However, via these thoughts, he is also diving into his emotions. Based on the aforementioned allusions, metaphors, similes, symbolism, and analogies, how is he applying them to “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer Day”? What message is he sending in this poem? Be sure to go deep into the meaning. Break your thoughts down for the sonnet. Below is the sonnet for you to pull details from: 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 fadeNor 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.