Hello friends today we are discuss this question, the question is -“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. “How does the poet focus on the theme of ‘time and love’ in the above lines?
In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare wages a war with time. The first quatrain which includes the above lines reflects the poet’s friend’s beauty through the image of summer, the best time of the year. The pleasant days of summer season are rich incabundance of natural beauty, but this beauty is inconsistent. The little soft buds of May are often tossed by the high wind of summer. Sometimes। the sun is too hot and at other times it is dimmed by clouds. None of the graceful and lovely elements of summer last long. The word “lease refers to। a lived lease. So the objects which add to the beauty of summer stay for a fixed period of time. These lines testify to Shakespeare’s glorification of love and its This poem over time, which is the master of all.