Question

3. Who is the author of Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to the summer's day, and brief?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Sonnet 18 is one of the best-known of the 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. In the sonnet, the speaker asks whether he should compare the young man to a summer's day, but notes that the young man has qualities that surpass a summer's day.

Answer 2

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Who is the author of Sonnet 18 "Shall I compare thee to the Summer's Day" and explain in brief?

$\longrightarrow$ The author of the Sonnet 18 "Shall I Compare thee to the Summer's Day" is William Shakespeare.

Substance: When the poet seeks to compare his friend's beauty with a summer day, golden with pleasant sunshine, he finds a summer's day has some defects. Dark clouds or a storm sometimes spoil the beauty of a summer day. But his friend is free from any such defects. Then again in nature beautiful things, in time, lose their beauty. That is nature's law. But his friend's beauty will never be lost. Even Death cannot destroy his beauty. The poet has made the beauty of his friend immortal, free from the shadows of Death through this poem of his. As long as people live, they will read this poem and will know how handsome his friend was.

Explanation:

${\red{\bigstar}}$ Sonnets: Sonnets are short poems having 14 lines. In sonnets the poets mostly talk about their feelings about the person with whom they are in love. They describe the beauty of the person they are in love with.

${\red{\bigstar}}$ About Shakespeare: Shakespeare wrote altogether 154 sonnets. But, Shakespeare was different from the other poets. He wrote majority of his sonnets, 126 of them, about his love and respect of an aristocrat nobleman. He called this man W.H. We do not for sue know whether W.H. was a real man or not. But many believe he was a real man, a contemporary of Shakespeare. Shakespeare dedicated the remaining 28 sonnets to a lady, whom he describes as his lady love. He writes she was dark coloured and not beautiful, yet he love her most, as any man can love a lady.

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