Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day

William Shakespeare

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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 oft' 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 wanderest 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.

COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS:

1) Associate 5 words with the term ‘SUMMER’.

2) Explain the title of the sonnet.

3) What kind of person is described in the poem?

4) In what ways can we relate the sonnet with different angels of love?

5) Make your own metaphorical statement about your loved ones. Defend your answer.