I need help with Shakespeare's SONNET 18 please!?

Question:sonnet 18-
"Shall I compare Thee" Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds to shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometimes declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed 1
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st 2
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

i need help with these questions-
1. In the opening lines, what is the speaker asking? How is the question answered?

2. List each of the comparisons presented by the speaker; how does his beloved compare with the summer's day?

3. According to the speaker, what "shall not fade" in his beloved?

4. From your reading of the poem, do you think that the speaker is only praising his beloved's physical beauty? Why or why not?

5. What is the "this" in the last line of the poem? What could the poet be saying about the importance of poetry?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: sonnet 18-
"Shall I compare Thee" Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds to shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometimes declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed 1
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st 2
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

i need help with these questions-
1. In the opening lines, what is the speaker asking? How is the question answered?

2. List each of the comparisons presented by the speaker; how does his beloved compare with the summer's day?

3. According to the speaker, what "shall not fade" in his beloved?

4. From your reading of the poem, do you think that the speaker is only praising his beloved's physical beauty? Why or why not?

5. What is the "this" in the last line of the poem? What could the poet be saying about the importance of poetry?

visit this page for sonnet 18 and some notes on it.......

http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/xvii...

what is it you need help with? the questions are pretty self-explanatory. you can't expect us to do it for you..we have work of our own to do.

1. pretty simple. the answer is in the rest of the poem
2. go through it line by line and write them down when you find them.
3. read that line again
4. that's an opinion. that measn there's no right or wrong - just what you think.
5. look at the 2nd of these questiosn to work out teh answer to the first. then the 2nd part is opinion again.