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Close Reading of shakespeare (continued)
key ideas and deTails
What are some of the complaints that the speaker has about summer? Paraphrase his complaints in your own words.
key ideas and deTails
What eventually happens to youth and beauty, according to the speaker? Use language from the sonnet to support your answer.
key ideas and deTails
According to the speaker, why is the object of his love now eternal? Use language from the sonnet to support your answer.
Sonnet 18
by 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:
5 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 fade
10 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st 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.
Check your Understanding
Now that you have read closely and worked to understand challenging portions of this sonnet, choose a sentence that you think is critical to understanding what the speaker is trying to express. Explain in your own words what the sentence means and why it is important to your understanding of the sonnet.
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