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Question: Shakespeare's" shall i compare thee to summers day" poem!?
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any body can tell how shakespeare tell us how is the nature of man that is subject to change in the poem-shall i compare thee to summers day
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I've read over it and I'm quite certain it does NOT say that the "nature of man" is subject to change at all!. And it's a sonnet (technically !.!.!.people won't believe you understood shakespeare if you call a sonnet a poem!.!.!.it is, but a specific type of poetry)

"Thou art more lovely and more temperate!."

Temperate is the opposite to extreeme (i!.e!. extreeme weather / storms) !.!.!.Shakespeare says flat out that his love is not changeable like nature, thus why he won't compare her to a summers day!.


Shakespeare goes on to say that nature is subject to chance, he is comparing his love's stability with the changability of nature:

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

Even if summer is all that great, summer only lasts a few months, whereas she will be beautifull all her life:

"But thy eternal summer shall not fade" (he's using summer as a metaphor of the joy she brings him)


In another way, Shakespeare is making her immortal and unchanging by writing the poem about her:

"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee!."

-As long as we (you and me) read this poem, the poem lives in our consciousness and Shakespeare's lover becomes immortalised in the lines!.


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he compaes her beauty to the beauty of summer!1 it is a nice season in England ansd it is not eternal, and this is the main point!. that this beauty won't last forever, just like summer!.

this link would be useful:
http://www!.cs!.rice!.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

he thinks the girl is hot like a summer's dayWww@QuestionHome@Com