From the beginning of the poem,
the speaker tries to set up a contrast between the beloved and a summer’s day.
He tries really hard to distinguish them, ultimately arguing that the beloved,
unlike nature, will be saved by the force and permanence of his poetry. The
thing is, the contrast doesn’t really work, since summer, if anything, seems
much more eternal than the beloved. If being written about preserves
immortality, then the summer ought to be immortal because the speaker’s writing
about it as well. And then there’s the fact that summer actually is, in some
sense, immortal, since it returns in full force every year.
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1: This is a rhetorical question, as the speaker definitely doesn’t care how or
whether we answer him, and it also...................................TO THE THE FULL NOTE YOU HAVE TO BUY.....
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