ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Shakespeare personifies the sun, calling it “the eye of heaven” with “his gold complexion dimmed” – the sun’s complexion dimmed in comparison to the beloved’s. Giving the sun a human quality begins to degrade what we normally consider the powerful, untouchable sun.

Detailed explanation-2: -The ‘’eye of heaven” is another term for the sun, and quite a poetic one at that. It evokes the image of the sun as a gateway to heaven, looking down on all of earth.

Detailed explanation-3: -The theme can also show how the symbol, the summer’s day, plays a role in the poem. Shakespeare use the symbol to prove that the life of a man will never end, even though the symbol will go then come back. “Sonnet 18”, in line 9, “But thy eternal summer shall not fade” (Shakespeare 9).

Detailed explanation-4: -"Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines” means that it can get too hot. They eye of Heaven is the sun. Sometimes the sun can shine too bright. “And often is his gold completion dimmed” means that the “his, ” the sun, is often dimmed.

Detailed explanation-5: -Shakespeare uses personification to compare the sun to ‘the eye of the heaven’, to show that sometimes the summer’s sun is too hot and sometimes the clouds will fade it away.