The opening line, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” (1), is immortalised in the memory of many literary enthusiasts immediately shaping the sonnet’s poetic structure as the comparative conceit between summer’s glorified “gold complexion'” (6) and the subject’s “fair” (7) and “eternal” (9) beauty. ![]() Published in 1609 in Shakespeare’s collection of 154 sonnets, Sonnet 18 is, arguably, the best known and most well-loved of all. ![]() Here, I will analyse the Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”.
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