FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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enjoys summer days more than any other season
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is not quite as nice as a typical summer day
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has several qualities that make them similar to a summer day
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is better than a summer day in several ways
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Detailed explanation-1: -He describes summer in a way that contrasts the kind of summer we usually picture. “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May” shows that the poet sees the summer climate as a blow to the spring flowers. He wants to show just how much better his beloved’s beauty is compared to that of summer.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -summer’s honey breath = the balmy, perfumed breezes of summer, the scent of flowers. hold out-an echo of hold a plea above. 6. Against the wrackful siege of battering days, wrackful-bringing devastation, wreckage and ruin.
Detailed explanation-4: -The poet is prompted to think that his verse possesses the power to eternalise his friend’s beauty. As long as human beings live and love to read, this very sonnet written in praise of his friend will remain to celebrate his friend’s beauty.