Hello friends today we are discuss this question, the question is -How does Shakespeare compare the beauty of his friend to that of a summer’s day in Sonnet 18?
In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare draws some comparison between his friend and a arresting’s day. He feels that his friend is ‘more lovely and ‘more temperate’ than the season of summer as sometimes strong summer winds threaten those new flower buds that pop up in the month of May. Whereas his friend seems to be having ‘eternal summer’ that ‘shall not fade’ which means that the beauty of his friend has an element of consistency. The poet states that everything beautiful ‘sometime declines’ but his friend will not lose possession’ of his beauty even against the ravages of time because his beauty is linked with the immortal lines composed by the poet.