Hello friends today we are discuss this question, the question is -How has Shakespeare celebrated masculine beauty, in the poem, shall I compare these is a summery day?
After much debate among the scholars, it is generally accepted that the fair friend of Sonnet No. 18 is a male. The sonnets, 1-126 focus on the relationship between the poet and a ‘male friend’ of his. In this sonnet, the poet compares his friend’s beauty to that of a summer’s day but finds the simile inand’s youth and charm, and grants him immortality inappropriate. The poet’s verse helps to preserve the with the help of different imageries in each quatrain. Initially, the poet clearly declares that his friend’s beauty is like an ‘eternal summer’ which will never fade, though ‘every fair from fair sometime declines’. In the concluding portion, he announces that death can never snatch away the warmth of his friend as he will protect the beauty of his dear friend in his verses and it will continue to exist as long as men live to read it. Thus, Shakespeare has celebrated masculine beauty in this sonnet and this helped him to set an exceptional example of love-sonnets.