Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day by Isabella Sarn

pb23662 — 2024-02-29 18:37:51 UTC

In the couplet, it states, "So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and gives life to thee." This is comparing all of their life, up until they take their last breath, to their love. This means that they will love each other for as long as they are alive.

is23042 — 2024-02-29 18:41:50 UTC

"Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,"

In this line Shakespeare is saying his love is greater than a summer's day because during summer the harsh winds rumble the blooming flowers.

kr23031 — 2024-02-29 18:42:33 UTC

In the third quatrain first line the poem says, "thy eternal summer shall not fade" this has the meaning of explaining that the beauty if forever like a summers day.

is23042 — 2024-02-29 18:46:55 UTC

"And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:"

In this line, Shakespeare is explaining the differences between his love and a summer's day and says that a summers day is too short. He doesn't want to compare his love to a summer's day because it isn't forever or everlasting like his love is to him.

pb23662 — 2024-02-29 18:53:20 UTC

In lines 11 and 12, the author is comparing life and death. The poem states, "Nor shall death brag thou wand' rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st" This is using shade as "death" and time to "life". Therefore the author is immortalizing the lover by saying that death cannot brag because the lovers not going to the shade.

kr23031 — 2024-02-29 18:53:20 UTC

The last two lines of the second quatrain say, "And every fair from fair, sometimes declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;" This means that everything in nature would eventually die off but his lovers beauty will never die off and is forever.