Short summary:
This
sonnet claims that the Dark Lady is more beautiful than the summer’s day and is
also as immortal as Shakespeare’s sonnet.
Summary:
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day is a sonnet composed by the
William Shakespeare, and the sonnet follows the rhyming pattern of abab cdcd
efef and gg. He invented this kind of sonnet known as English or Shakespearean
sonnet.
In
this sonnet Shakespeare describe a lady comparing with charming days of the
summer. In the sonnet Shakespeare claims that his Dark Lady is more beautiful
than the summer's day. He describes the days of the summer is very lovely and
temperate and the buds blooms in this season and rough winds shakes them. But
he unwisely expresses that the days of the summer is very pleasant but
altogether very short.
The
sun is sometimes very hot and its golden complexion becomes dim. The beauty of
every beautiful thing diminishes and ruined eventually. It is the nature's
rules that everyone goes through like flowers bloom and wither someday. The
poet feels sad that such beauty someday withers for no reason and feels sad.
But
the poet believes that he makes his beloved eternal in the lines of his verse.
Her beauty never fades away and neither loses her beauty. The death could not
be proud because she will remain immortalizing in the lines of verse. She may
die physically, but her beauty remains fresh in the verse. Here, the poet boost
that the death also could not damage anything of his beloved.
The
poet says that human race will never end from this earth and their eyes will
always read her beauty. This shows that his poem will never die and the
beautiful Dark Lady lives forever in his eternal verse. The poet sketches her
beauty in this poem, which makes her immortal. The poet gives a real romantic
portrayal of his beloved the Dark Lady and faithfully devoted to her beauty.
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