Sonnet 18

OVERVIEW

The man who speaks begins by asking whether he should or will compare “thee to a summer day”. he says that his beloved is more lovely and more even tempered. he then runs off a list of reasons why summer isn’t all great that winds shake the buds that emerged in summer ends to quickly and the sun can get to hot or be blocked by The cloud.

Sonnet 73

OVERVIEW

In lines 13-14 you get a contrasting idea to sonnet18, though it is related. The speaker tells the person he is talking to that because he (the the mans who’s reading) is  to die very soon the other person should treasure their love for the rest of his/her life.f

Sonnet 55

OVERVIEW

Talking to the prison he loves. the speaker begins with some confident words of comfort no other memorials, however permanent, can outdo this sonnet, which will live longer and shine bright like a diamond. Other human creations have to deal with time and violent war, but this poem escapes both of these downers.

Sonnet 101

OVERVIEW

Continuing his plea to the Muse of poetry, the poet abandons his silence and preach about the nature of truth and beautifulness. Nature he says is the poet’s truth cosmetic beauty his falsehood “Truth needs no color with his color fixed, Beauty no pencil beauty’s truth to lay.”

Sonnet 152

OVERVIEW

 

The end of the relationship between the man who reads and his misses becomes apparent. Addressing the woman with a sense of embarrassment and utter anger, the poet is fully conscious of his own adultery and that of his misses.