Shakespeare's" shall i compare thee to summers day" poem?

Question

hello

any body can tell how shakespeare tell us how is the nature of man that is subject to change in the poem-shall i compare thee to summers day

any one can help

Answer 1

he compaes her beauty to the beauty of summer!1 it is a nice season in England ansd it is not eternal, and this is the main point. that this beauty won't last forever, just like summer.

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Answer 2

I've read over it and I'm quite certain it does NOT say that the "nature of man" is subject to change at all. And it's a sonnet (technically ...people won't believe you understood shakespeare if you call a sonnet a poem...it is, but a specific type of poetry)

"Thou art more lovely and more temperate."

Temperate is the opposite to extreeme (i.e. extreeme weather / storms) ...Shakespeare says flat out that his love is not changeable like nature, thus why he won't compare her to a summers day.

Shakespeare goes on to say that nature is subject to chance, he is comparing his love's stability with the changability of nature:

"Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date."

Even if summer is all that great, summer only lasts a few months, whereas she will be beautifull all her life:

"But thy eternal summer shall not fade" (he's using summer as a metaphor of the joy she brings him)

In another way, Shakespeare is making her immortal and unchanging by writing the poem about her:

"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."

-As long as we (you and me) read this poem, the poem lives in our consciousness and Shakespeare's lover becomes immortalised in the lines.

Hope this helps

Answer 3

he thinks the girl is hot like a summer's day