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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too hot and ever-changing
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warm and lovely
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beautiful yet cruel
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uneventful yet pleasant
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Detailed explanation-1: -Option (B) warm and lovely, is the correct answer.
Detailed explanation-2: -Summary: Sonnet 18 Summer’s days tend toward extremes: they are shaken by “rough winds”; in them, the sun (“the eye of heaven”) often shines “too hot, ” or too dim. And summer is fleeting: its date is too short, and it leads to the withering of autumn, as “every fair from fair sometime declines.”
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Summer represents optimism. Shakespeare goes on to point out that summer has its downside, as well. For instance, sometimes the sun is far too hot. Summer heat can be unbearable.
Detailed explanation-5: -Lines 5-6. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; Here comes the major personification of nature. Put simply, the speaker’s saying sometimes the sun is too hot, and other times you can’t even see it at all (hidden, we assume, by clouds).