Shall I compare thee to a summers day?

Sonnet 18 “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” focuses on the beauty of the poet’s beloved and how her beauty never fades because it will be remembered by those who read the poem; suggesting that the poem immortalizes her. He creates this main theme with poetic features such as, tone, imagery, symbolism, alliteration, assonance, metaphoric comparisons and with the style of syntax. These particular features are used to support this main idea and lead the reader to a realization of this conclusion.
The poet uses several themes that contribute to the main point of the poem. He uses the season of summer and he compares and contrasts his love for his beloved to a beautiful summer’s day as well as a bad summer’s day. He asks, “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 had all too short a date”(Shakespeare). Each of these points lead to ...