Sonnet no.18 Shall I compare thee questions and answers study questions

Sonnet no.18 Shall I compare thee questions and answers study questions:-

Exam Questions and Answers of Sonnet No. 18 “Shall I compare thee” by William Shakespeare:-

Question:-

In the sonnet “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day”, why can not death boast about the poet’s friend?

Answer:-

According to the poet, the beauty of his friend is everlasting and it will never fade away. That is why the eternal summer of his friend will never end. Hence death will have no hold upon him.

How does Shakespeare conclude his couplet?

The concept of time, death, love and immortality found predominance in Shakespearean sonnets. The poet firmly believes that his verse will be immortal. Time will not devour it up. Hence his friend’s beauty which he has praised in this sonnet will also be immortalized. 

To His Love

(Sonnet no. 18)

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 owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:—

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