Sonnet 18

Question 1

what are the themes

Answer 1

love,eternal,nature

Question 2

quotes on time/eternal

Answer 2

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date

Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee

Question 3

quotes on nature

Answer 3

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date

Question 4

what techniques are used in the poem

Answer 4

personification,metaphors

Question 5

quotes on personification

Answer 5

personifies death when he says, “Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade” (11). In this figure, the speaker ascribes to Death the ability to boast, and this personification does add to the emotional and intellectual content of the poem

“Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, / And often is his gold complexion dimm’d” (lines 5-6). This line characterizes the sun as heaven’s eye – a kind of personification of heaven (as possessing an eye)

Question 6

metaphor

Answer 6

thy eternal summer shall not fade

Question 7

quotes on love

Answer 7

sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines

but thy eternal summer shall not fade

thou art more lovely and more temperate