Shakespeare's Sonnet 18

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than a poem. Sonnet 18 is one of the most admired of
his collection. It is a beautiful romantic love poem written to compare
summer to his love’s beauty. A beautiful piece of imagery is used in
lines1-3: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou are more lovely
and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May:”
Shakespeare clearly ables the reader to picture a beautiful woman whose
beauty can not be taken away by any means. The reader, by reading on, can
than picture flowers blowing in a breeze.
Sonnet 18 is very typical of his writing style. Romantisicm runs
rmapid as a theme in many of his poems. He best shows this style in lines
10-14:

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest,
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lined do time thou growest.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
(Shakespeare lines ...

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