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Question: Need help explaining this poem!! !?
the poem is called "Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day!?" and it's by William Shakespeare:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day!?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
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!.
–William Shakespeare

I just need to know what exactly does it mean!? Best Answer gets 10 POINTS!!Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
It's comparing a summer day to a girl, basically!.
In the beginning, he is basically saying she is beautiful!. Saying their love will grow and prosper!. And that with each other "thy eternal summer shall not fade"!. Www@QuestionHome@Com