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Sonnet 18

The English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare was the author of the most widely admired and influential body of literature by any individual in the history of Western civilization. However, perhaps he was only well known for many plays that represent romantic love. His treatment of love ranges from the humorous in the comedy to the sad and tragic in the melodramas. Likewise, in by William Shakespeare, he writes about a love that cannot be compared to anything in the world because of his deep infatuation.
Shakespeare wrote his sonnet when he was deeply in love with a woman. He starts off his sonnet by implanting an image in our head of a summer day. A summer day triggers a scene ...

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hot weather magnified because it is coming from heaven and the seasons are changing. Shakespeare has taken the idea of a warm breezy summer day and twisted it into a sweltering day with the sun beating down on us.
However, in the lines after the destruction of a nice day, he twists things back by the comments he showers on his love. He tells us that his love's beauty shall remain the same at all times, "…thy…shall not fade"(ll. 9). He places an exclamation on that line by using the word eternal. It gives us the feeling that her beauty is one that will last until the end of the earth. Shakespeare then goes on to speak about how exquisite she is. She is different from everyone because she will always have what she has now unlike others that will lose it. Even if death looms before her he has to right or reason to "brag". She will not pale in his shadow. Shakespeare capitalizes death and personifies him and gives us an image of a grim reaper type character.
In Shakespeare's ending ...

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Added: 5/13/2006 12:48:44 PM
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