“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date”.
Shakespeare spoke of May being the windy season and the wind blowing as spring prepare for the beauty of a summer day. For most of us, summer tend to be hot, and hot days are considered to be rough days for most , but as sure as summer is hot it will fade away and fall will set in. “But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou’ ow’st” When the speaker talked about summer, he speaks of a time that will never fade. He also speaks of a beauty that will never fade even through the course of time. In this poem, the speaker wishes to capture this moment in time, he wants to immortalize this place and time, and he wants to capture this place and time forever, which he does in Poetry. If you have ever experienced love, there must be a moment in time that you wish cou...
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...ries, Shakespeare was very simplistic in his language, but capture his moments of love giving it eternal life by using the seasons of summer and winter to express love. In this poem, he referenced the beginning of summer by describing May as a time the flowers start to bloom and he represented the sun giving it a golden complexion as he compared them to her beauty. Shakespeare represented winter by flowers and things dying. Through all the things that he talks about, he never gave a general description of his lover; from the passages given, you would believe she was a goddess among women. Shakespeare uses the metaphor of seasons in the simplest way to describe his feelings and passion for his lover. In the last passage Shakespeare knew that man love for poetry would continue to grow and his body of work describing his felling would live forever through his words.
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