Ghafoor1Sidra GhafoorEnglish IV (3)Ms. Miller22 February 2011Comparison of a Day in SummerIn the love sonnet titledSonnet 18by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare describes hisbeloved as a subject of the sonnet to a“summer’s day”, in which he finds her to be better than abeautiful day of summer(Shakespeare Line 1).The sonnet contains three quatrains and acouplet.Shakespeare compares the love of his life from being beautiful to a perfect and timelessseason and he does so in just fourteen lines.In this sonnet Shakespeare keeps his love alive anduses a variety of techniques to demonstrate how love is more brilliant and everlasting than asummer's day.In the first quatrain Shakespeare starts off the sonnet with a question,“[s]hall I comparethee to a summer’s day?” getting the reader to think if his beloved is as beautiful as a day ofsummer(Shakespeare 1).Next Shakespeare moves into the devotion of a comparison betweenhis love and summer in the next eleven lines by answering the following question.Shakespeare
