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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Comparing Shakespeare to his beloved
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Comparing his beloved to a summer’s day
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Comparing Shakepeare to a summer’s day
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Comparing his beloved to time
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first line “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” suggests the person the speaker addresses is comparable to a beautiful day and all it entails. The statement claims the speaker’s focus is a summer’s day, only to become something even more beautiful later in the poem.
Detailed explanation-2: -The beloved’s life is described in a metaphor as a “summer, ” and then his or her beauty is described in another metaphor as a commodity than can be owned or owed. Death is then personified, as the overseer of the shade (a metaphor itself for an afterlife).
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. 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.