LITERATURE QUESTIONS
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
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Question
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Compares his love to a winter storm
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Compares his love to a summer’s day
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Compares his love to a turbulent sea
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Compares his love to his fear of death
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Detailed explanation-1: -His beloved is compared to summer in the first 8 lines as “more lovely and more temperate” than a summer’s day, but at the start of the 9th line, his beloved becomes summer as the poet states, “but thy eternal summer shall not fade.”
Detailed explanation-2: -In the sonnet, the speaker asks whether he should compare the Fair Youth to a summer’s day, but notes that he has qualities that surpass a summer’s day. He also notes the qualities of a summer day are subject to change and will eventually diminish.
Detailed explanation-3: -"Sonnet 18” is a Shakespearean sonnet, meaning it has 14 lines written in iambic pentameter and that follow a regular rhyme scheme. This rhyme scheme can be divided into three quatrains followed by a couplet.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.