Hello friends today we are discuss this question, the question is -Do you find a note of irony in the interrogation ‘Shall I compare thee…?
There is a note of irony in the interrogation ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ Though the poet praises the beauty of his beloved friend and considers such a comparison to be inappropriate but the immortality of beauty is actually a veiled assertion of the immortal beauty of poetry. There is an indication that the poem is not really about the fair youth but the poet himself. The reason behind the immortality of the young man is not his beauty or the greatness of it, but the outcome of the poet’s own literary prowess.