Hello friends today we are discuss this question, the question is -Comment on the last two lines of the Sonnet.
The last two lines or the couplet forms the concluding portion of Shakespeare’s Sonnet No.18- “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” In these lines, the poet expresses his firm hope for keeping alive his friend’s beauty in this mortal world through the power of this verse. He finds more loveliness and serenity in his friend’s beauty than in the bright summer. He feels this beauty is imperishable because it is not subjected to decay or destruction although every fair from fair sometime declines’ with the changing course of time. The cold embrace of death is unable to claim his friend’s beauty and drag him down to the dark, lifeless realm. The poet’s friend will in fact live forever and thrive through his verse. As long as the human race survives, this very sonnet written in praise of his friend, will remain to celebrate his friend’s beauty. It will give him an eternal life which no destructiveness of time can ever take away.