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CLenarduzzi_Shall I Comare Thee To A Summer's Day
by CLenarduzzi - (2014-03-10)
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"Shall I Comare Thee To A Summer's Day?"
By W.Shakespeare

The title coincides with the first line of the sonnet, that displays the typical Elisapetian sonnet. Also it starts with a question; it is only apparently a question since right from the strat the speaking voice is addressing his interlocutor perfectly knows that the effect of comparing his beloved to a summer's day is tottally pointless.
The sonnet aquares the form of an appareent dialogue where there is no place for the address. The dialogue mainly sounds a protest to magnify the fear youth duty. The poet describes to exploit summer, a critical part of the Year to better focus the young aged of his beloved and therefore the comaprison is symbolical true. Interesting is to notice that despite summer and May are references generally carringf connotations. Shakespeare turns that upside down so they b
ecame totally unsuitable is applied to his beloved and the nature of their relationship. The use of majority comparisons like "thow aer more loovely and more temperate" simbolically deny all that is generally recognised by the common people.
Viceversa what the poem wants to strike about the possible summer day of the comparison is "rought winds", a lease that is "too short a day". In a few words there is no perfection or belance in the season that is generally recognised as the more positive of the year, at the same time being summer the suitable comparison to refer to youth. It goes without saying that summer is also the period when the sun - that is here personify being the eye of Heaven- so that the fera youth himself is connected to heaven and therefore with perfection