FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
POETRY
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Question
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Who wrote this famous line: ’Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day/ Thou art more lovely and more temperate’
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TS Eliot
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Lord Tennyson
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Charlotte Bronte
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Shakespeare
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -While William Shakespeare’s reputation is based primarily on his plays, he became famous first as a poet.
Detailed explanation-2: -Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare-Poems | poets.org.
Detailed explanation-3: -Scholars have identified three subjects in this collection of poems-the Rival Poet, the Dark Lady, and an anonymous young man known as the Fair Youth. Sonnet 18 is addressed to the latter.
Detailed explanation-4: -Shakespeare uses Sonnet 18 to praise his beloved’s beauty and describe all the ways in which their beauty is preferable to a summer day. The stability of love and its power to immortalize someone is the overarching theme of this poem.
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