CHANGE, FATE, AND ETERNITY
However much it might look he’s
praising a beloved, this poet is definitely more concerned with tooting his own
horn. Really, you could sum up the poem like this: "Dear Beloved: You’re
better than a summer’s day. But only because I can make you eternal by writing
about you. Love, Shakespeare." That message is why images and symbols of
time, decay, and eternity are all over this poem. Whether or not we think the
beloved is actually made immortal (or just more immortal than the summer’s day)
is up in the air, but it’s certainly what the speaker wants you to think.
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4: This is where the speaker starts pointing to how short summer feels. Using
personification and metaphor, the speaker suggests that summer has taken out a
lease on the weather, which must ......................................To get the full note you have to buy..
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