Hello friends today we are discuss this question, the question is -Why do you think the poet chooses to assert the truth in the last lines of the poem “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
Shakespeare chooses to assert the truth in the last two lines of the poem “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” The rhyming couplet reinforces the idea that the poet’s verse will grant immortality to the young man. The first three quatrains or twelve lines of the sonnet narrates why the beloved friend of Shakespeare is ‘more lovely’ and ‘more temperate’ than summer. After an elaborate description of the superiority of the fair youth over the inconsistent beauty of summer, the poet declares the truth in the last two lines, because a couplet acts as the climax of a sonnet, where the poet dedicates the poem to the memory of his much adored friend.