Question

What are most closely the central themes of Sonnet 18?
Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.


a)

love and immortality

b)

nature and death

c)

uncertainty and time

d)

nature and man

Answer 1

A because love and relationship

Answer 2

Answer:

a)  love and immortality.

Explanation:

In this famous sonnet written by Shakespeare, the speaker compares the beauty of his loved one to a summer´s day, and he then goes on to proclaim that the love he feels is immortal and will never perish nor beauty will ever decay since he was put down in words this feeling of love and beauty, so that, as long as the poet´s lines exist and there is somebody to read them, the beauty of his loved one will, just as much as the poem, live forever.