Q: Write the substance of the poem ‘Shall I Compare Thee to a
Summer’s Day?’.
A: Shakespeare in his ‘Shall I
Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?’ pays a tribute to the beauty of his young
friend. At first, the poet is not sure how to describe his friend’s beauty
adequately. According to the poet, it would be inapt to compare the beauty of
his friend to a summer’s day because his beauty is more moderate and lovely.
Moreover the beauty of his friend is not without blemishes. The sweet buds of
May are blown down by rough winds. The summer is short lived too. The sun
sometimes shines too hot and sometimes it is overclouded. So the summer is subject
to chances and changes and is deprived of adornment.
Every beautiful
thing or human being is subject to death, decay and destruction. The loss may
occur about by an accident, nature’s neglect or with the passage of time. But
the poet wants to immortalize his friend’s beauty. So he thinks of a literary
immortality through his verse. Eternal lines of his verse would make eternal
summer of the poet’s friend’s beauty denying Death and Time. The poet considers
that the youth’s beauty, captured in the poem, will remain forever as long as
the poem is read.
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