Comparison of Shall I Compare Thee? and My Mistress Eyes are Essay

1 Shall compare thee to a summers day? ======================================= Thou art more lovely and more temperate Rough winds do shake the dearie buds of maie, And summers lease hath all to short a date 5 Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, ============================================= And often is his gold complexion dimd, --------------------------------------- And any faire from faire sometime declines, --------------------------------------------- By chance, or natures changing course untrimd ----------------------------------------------- But thy eternal summer shall not fade, -------------------------------------- 10 Nor loose possession of that faire thou owst, Nor shall death hyperbolize thou wandrst in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growst, So long as men provoke breath or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives heart to thee. In this sonnet, Shakespeare is creating a mental picture of spring and summer to compare against his loved on e. He uses the fact that fine and stunning days are the creation of nature, and nature is constantly changing all the time. Fine days never stay the same rough winds or the sun obscured by clouds, and often is his gold complexion dimd, can easily mar a fine day. He talks about these negative factors of change in the prime(prenominal) eight lines, and Shakespeare then uses these ideas to claim that his loved one will always remain untarnished, speaking of how thy eternal summer shall not fade and how his loved one has unchanging qualities that will outshine death Nor shall death brag thou wandrst in his shade These thoughts come to a confident, final... ...Compared to the first few lines in the second sonnet My bawd eyes are nothing like the sun coral is far more red than her lips red And this shocking feeling of offense and harshness continues done to line twelve in the second sonnet. However, there are some dark points in the first sonnet as well, as death is mentioned in lin e eleven Nor shall death brag thou wandrst in his shade And rough winds in line three. However, how harsh and sincere these sonnets may be, both confuse the conclusions with the similar idea that Shakespeare loves his woman so much that he doesnt need to give her false comparisons to do with beautiful items or beautiful things that dont last perpetually - his love lasts for eternity in the sonnet So long as men can breath, and eyes can see So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.