This document provides an analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18. It begins with an introduction noting that Shakespeare is the speaker addressing a young man. The summary explains that the sonnet aims to make the young man understand his personality, reactions to procreating, and will. It then hints that the sonnet's second part acknowledges nature's course of death. The document concludes that the sonnet tells the young man he will become eternal through his descendants.

1. Analysis of Sonnet #18
Presented by: Komal Mohammad Moosa
To: Nazra Zahid Sheikh

2. Introduction
• William Shakespeare has written this poem.
• He himself is the speaker of the poem.
• He has addressed to a young man.
• The tone of the writer is a soft one that implies
many facts of his growth and decline process.

3. Summary:
• The sonnet is written for a young man to make him
understand his personality, his reactions towards
procreating, and his will.
• Where in the second part from the line 8, the writer
clearly opens up the reality of nature’s course that is the
death of the young man.

4. • He hints at the benefits of procreation by
saying that death cannot snatch anything from
you whether it be the warmth or harshness.
• At the end he tells that you will become
eternal through your descendants.

5. Themes
• Love
• Marriage
• Death
• Eternality

6. Meter
• The meter is as per convention of the Shakespearean sonnets.
• As ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG.
• Lines are of middle length.
• Repetition of some of the functional words such as: So, long,
nor occurs.
• Overall the sonnet’s language is classical and somewhat
difficult.

7. Literary devices and Imagery
• A summer’s day: friendliness providing entity
(Personification),
• Rough winds: harsh behavior,
• Shake: keep at a distance,
• Darling buds: little cute emotions
• May: beholder, partner

8. • Gold complexion: attractiveness
• Dimmed: become less urging.
• Fair from fair (alliteration)
• Fade: come to an end
wander’st: mood swing, negativity.
• Eye of heaven: sun (Personification)
• Shines: hinders,
• Eternal lines: descendants.
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