Question

what is the simile in Sonnet 18 ?​

Answer 1

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Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare is also frequently called "Shall I compare thee to a summer day". This sonnet does not have similes in it--it is a metaphor. A simile is when you compare one thing to another using "as" or "like" (The room was as hot as the sun). In sonnet 18 the narrator describes a summer day but is actually talking about all the ways in which the object of the sonnet is pleasing to himSonnet 18 by Shakespeare is also frequently called "Shall I compare thee to a summer day". This sonnet does not have similes in it--it is a metaphor. A simile is when you compare one thing to another using "as" or "like" (The room was as hot as the sun). In sonnet 18 the narrator describes a summer day but is actually talking about all the ways in which the object of the sonnet is pleasing to him  

 

Answer 2

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Shakespeare's sonnet 18 is of the most famous poems that uses metaphors. ... When the speaker says, "But thy eternal summer shall not fade," he uses a metaphor that says she will always be young to him, and that her glow and strength is everlasting" (524,9).