1. Dana Gallo Ashley Gresko Emily Price
Sonnet 18
Dana Gallo
Ashley Gresko
Emily Price

2. Sonnet 18
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; 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 lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee.”

3. Paraphrase
Should I compare you to a day in summer? You’re even prettier and warmer than a summer day. The flower buds from May start to bloom, but summer will end too soon. The sun is sometimes too hot, even when it’s cloudy. It’s a shame the season is changing because summer is so pretty. Usually things change, but you will not; you will always be beautiful. You are so pretty that death wont want you or brag about having you. Even when death is approaching, as long as are remembered through this poem, your beauty will never die.

4. Analysis of Literary Devices
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; 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 lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

5. Sonnet 18 couplet is a summary
Summary or Reversal?
“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee.”
Sonnet 18 couplet is a summary
the entire poem discusses how her beauty will not fade.
his opinion is consistent throughout the poem.
the theme does not change and there is no ‘turn’ in any part of the poem.

6. Evidence Theme Line 9 “But thy eternal summer shall not fade”
Line “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee.”
Line 12 “When in eternal lines to time thou growest.”
There are many themes throughout this sonnet but the main idea is that her beauty will not ever change. Also, it portrays that death will not kill her beauty. Shakespeare believes that through poetry, her beauty will be immortal.

7. Scansion
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; 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 lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

8. Comparison A lot of Shakespeare's sonnets contain beauty love seasons
“the time of year…when yellow leaves or none or few do hang.”
constant use of metaphors
death
focuses on how he will always remember his loves even when they are gone.
comparisons of beauty
“…like a jewel hung in ghastly night”

9. Questions & Answers
1. Which aspects of a summer day are used in this comparison with the beloved? Are any of them favorable? Pretty, warm, sunny, lovely which are all favorable. But also too hot, and sometimes cloudy. 2. According to the speaker, what will keep his beloveds “eternal summer” from fading? His poems will keep her beauty from fading.

10. 3. Some readers feel that Shakespeare, in this sonnet, was paying greater tribute to his poetry than to his love. What do you think? His main focus is on her beauty even though he does refer to his poetry as a source of her undying beauty. 4. The theme of Sonnet 18 is not a summer’s day, nor even the comparison of the beloved to a summer’s day. Think about the couplets connection to the rest of the sonnet. Explain the theme. The ongoing comparison between summer and his love describes how summer changes but her beauty is never going to change.