“Thy eternal summer shall not fade”: Flower of all Seasons in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 :: Literary Analysis, Shakespeare

Shakespe be intertwines two characteristics of sweetie, while at the same(p) time subtly masking their differences, showing that inner transcends outer violator. Beauty is rare and true viewer until now more so true beauty is beauty thats on the inside, and is lacking in many, yet Shakespeare was able to find a woman who is beautiful from the inside out. Shakespeare, in sonnet eighteen, uses descriptions of nature, and imagery to evince, and promptly compare them to a girl with true inner beauty, one which surpasses even her own outer beauty.The poet compares the imperfections of summer to contradict the iridescent outer beauty of the girl he loves. Even though the summer seems like the crush season, it is always undesirably too short (4) and nature always has its faults and the girl does non. Sometimes its too hot (5) and sometimes on a beautiful day its gold complexion is even dimmed, the clouds haze over which is believed, by some, to foreshadow bad luck. But her beauty is n incessantly cloud by something else nor her gold complexion dimmed (6). However, all these imperfections are not natural for her. She, he praises, is more amiable and more temperate than a summers day (2). In praising her beauty he even emphasizes the word more. Both lovely and temperate are words that show effective use of diction. While he does ingest words that accurately express his feelings they also have strong connotations lovely could imply high attractiveness and exquisite beauty and temperate could imply that she is by nature a rattling strong, yet mild and ego controlled person. Shakespeare also shows all of summers imperfections through the imagery of flowers. another(prenominal) instance where summers beauty is cut short by nature and therefore is incomparable to the girls beauty is when the Rough winds...Shake the darling buds of whitethorn (3), may is a time in the year when the weather starts to cranky up and flowers are in full bloom, beautiful at the very beginning of summer. But sadly nature comes and snatches the beauty away, the image of the winds of May coming and blowing petals off the beautiful flowers shows the Rough behaviors, and shortcomings that nature has to offer. At the same time the wind is also a metaphor for adversities or problems in life and how he praises the one he loves because she is not affected by obstacles. The poet also expresses and emphasizes that even though the buds and the flowers may wither with the rough winds, her beauty still holds intact especially her inner beauty, her temperate nature that ever endures adversity.