What is the title of sonnet 18?

Answer 1

Shakespeare's 18th Sonnet is Shall I Compare thee to a summer's day?

It goes like this:

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 wander'st 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.

It's the best sonnet ever written for a start. These days everything as to be gay but I'm sure this sonnet is about a man charming a woman.

Here is a link to the words on a image http://www.insetdesigns.com/william-shakespeare/sonnet18.html

Hope you agree?

it is only a opinion but at least i leave other peoples opinion's here and not deleting them, leaving only there opinion, which others seem to do?

no one can truly know what was meant, so there will be many views unless someone decides only to leave there opinion for you to read!

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It is not a love sonnet as many imagine, but a reflection that beauty when shown "in eternal lines" lasts longer than beauty in real life. It is generally thought to be written to a handsome young man, but it makes sense also if addressed to a young woman. Either way it is not an expression of desire.

Answer 2

This Sonnet is part of the Fair Youth Sequence.

It is a demonstration of a cliché'

The general view is that this sonnet is about temporality, about physical beauty and love. It stresses that the loved one will live forever through the words of the poem.

Most people believe the sonnet was written by a man to a man, although probably not as a gesture of sexual attraction. Homosexuality was frowned on in those days.

Others think it is more likely to be written for a woman.

Answer 3

It is about his love, who is better than a summer day and will, because of this poem, live on forever.

Answer 4

Physical beauty fades, but poetry lives forever.

Answer 5

The general theme of the sonnet is that what is written about in poetry is eternal - specifically in this poem, Shakespeare is admiring a woman.

Answer 6

eating bananas is a great way to die.

Answer 7

Shall I compare thee to a summers day.

Answer 8

The transience of beauty.