FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Question
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In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare does all of the following except
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compare a persona favorably to a certain moment of the year
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assure the person addressed of some sort of immortality
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pay someone some very flattering compliments
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suggest that poetry is more interesting than most people
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -In this sonnet, Shakespeare also claims to have the power to preserve his love’s beauty through poetry which has lead critics such as James Boyd-White to claim that it is actually ‘one long exercise in self-glorification’ rather than a love poem. The sonnet begins with conveying the beauty of Shakespeare’s love.
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