Shall I compare thee to a summer's dayby William Shakespeare

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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 wand'rest in his shade, • When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st. • So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, • So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

A sonnet is a 14 line poem and each line has 10 syllables in it. All of these lines are joined together by one theme. The poem shall I compare thee to a summers day is a sonnet.

• title examination – the title is Shall I compare thee to a summer's day what this means is that Shakespeare is comparing someone to a summers day

• Shifts – there isn't much of a shift in this poem

• Attitude – this poem is very calm and relaxed

• Devices – the entire sonnet is a metaphor and there is also some oxymoron's like complexion dimmed and imagery because the sonnet is making you imagine what the seasons look sound and even feel like. Also, most of the sonnet is a hyperbole

• Paraphrase – can I compare you to a day in summer. You are more lovely and more hot. Rough winds don’t shake the darling buds of may(I don’t know what that means).the season summer is too short. sometimes your hotness shines more than heaven. And his gold complexion is dimmer(I don't know what this means). And sometimes things that are fair go away by change or through natures course. But your summer will never go away or slowly lose its look. Even in death you shall remain this way. When time goes on, as long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, as long as this is, and this gives life to you.

• Connotation - what shakespear is saying is that he is telling a girl that she's really hot and that she will stay hot under any circumstances.

• Theme – the theme is love