Monday, January 24, 2011

Sonnet 18

1. The basic comparison that is being made in the poem is comparing a person to a summers day.

2. The speaker probably feels love towards the person in the poem. The speaker believes this person is beautiful and believes the beauty will last forever, even when dead.

3. The question raised in the first line is opening the poem immediatly telling you of the comparison being made. The rhyme scheme shows the different thoughts the poet had and displays them in that pattern. The main points of each quatrain and couplet emphasize the main thoughts and all reflect back to the first line of the poem which was " Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

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