Pag.139

EX.1

a)the pronoun ''thee'' refers to his lover.

b)the poet comperes the summer's days to his lover.

c)summer is perturbed by hot temperature

summer if fare but decline

summer is eternal and shall not fade

summer's beauty

d)the eternal summer shall not fade, not lose possession of that fair.

e)his love for him and his memory would makes his lover eternal.

EX.2

in the second and third stanzas, the second and the third line star both with a repetition, in second stanza of the world ''and'', and in the third one ''nor''.

The main subject of the two stanzas are his lover and summer.

The passage of subject is idicated with the changed of stanzas.

EX.3

eye of even:people

thy eternal summer:life

EX.5

eternal summer stands for youth

eternal lines stands for life

EX.6

as long as people have eyes to read this poem(that is, to the end of the world), this poem will exist making the poet's love eternal.

SONNET XVIII

Reading the title I know that this poem is part of a collection because it is defined by a number. This sonnet is also called ''shall I compare thee to a summer's day?'', that is the first line of the poem. This is a retoric question, because nobody will answear. ''shall'' is a modal verb that is used for asking or give advice.the reader mayde be courious to know why the poet compares a person ''you'' to the summer's days, that is an unusual thing.

The layout. Looking the lay out the reader can realise that the poem is arranged into four stanzas. The first three stanzas are quatrains (a quotrain is organized into four lines) and the last one is a rymying coplet. So this sonnet respects the Shakespearean/Elisabethean model.

Denotative analysis. The first stanza is the comparison between summer's days and his lover.

In the second stanza there is the characteristics of summer's days. The third stanza is introduced by''but''and the thone of poem changed. The last stanza is the conclusion.

The rhyme scheme is ABAB, CDCD, EFEF in the first three stanzasand GG in the last stanza.

The there are some metaphore: 'eye of heaven': people and 'death' for someone who staies with his love.

The message is that the time carry on, life goes away but he will always look at him like something better than summer days.