Question

to whom dose Shakespeare confer superiority in his sonnet 18?​

Answer 1

Answer:

'This' refers to Shakespeare's poetry, his Sonnet no 18. 'Thee' refers to the poet's friend whose everlasting beauty is the theme of this sonnet. ... The poet is confident that his poetry has the power to eternalize his friend's beauty.

Answer 2

Answer:

In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare praises his beloved's beauty and describes all the ways in which it is superior to a summer day.

Explanation:

The poem's main theme is the stability of love and its ability to immortalize someone.

• "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" asks the poet, and the poet spends the rest of the poem addressing that question.
• The poem's language and meaning are plain. Through the use of form, imagery, and figurative language, several literary devices enhance the poem's content to illustrate how his sweetheart possesses an eternal beauty that much surpasses the brilliance of that all-too-fleeting summer day.
• Shakespeare mostly uses natural imagery throughout the poem to express his sentiments about his beloved's attractiveness. He paints an image of summer that is quite different from what we generally imagine.
• The poet sees the summer environment as a blow to the spring blooms, as "Rough breezes do shake the beautiful buds of May." He wants to demonstrate how much more beautiful his beloved is than the summer.
• Shakespeare attempts to deconstruct all good summer images so that the reader can see how much he elevates the picture of his beloved.