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Saturday, August 1, 2015

How does William Shakespeare Personifies the nature in his "Shall I compare thee" or Sonnet 18?

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.
Line 1: This is a rhetorical question, as the speaker definitely doesn’t care how or whether we answer him, and it also...................................

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