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Sonnet 18

The document is Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, which compares the subject of the poem to a summer's day. It states that the subject is more lovely and constant than a summer's day, which can be too hot, its beauty faded by nature. However, the beauty and eternal summer of the subject shall not fade, but live on as long as men can breathe or see, giving life to the poem itself.

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Sonnet 18

The document is Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, which compares the subject of the poem to a summer's day. It states that the subject is more lovely and constant than a summer's day, which can be too hot, its beauty faded by nature. However, the beauty and eternal summer of the subject shall not fade, but live on as long as men can breathe or see, giving life to the poem itself.

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Sonnet 18: Shall I compare Sonnet 18: Shall I compare Sonnet 18: Shall I compare

thee to a summer’s day? thee to a summer’s day? thee to a summer’s day?

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Shall I compare thee to a Shall I compare thee to a Shall I compare thee to a


summer’s day? summer’s day? summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and Thou art more lovely and Thou art more lovely and
more temperate: more temperate: more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the Rough winds do shake the Rough winds do shake the
darling buds of May, darling buds of May, darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all And summer’s lease hath all And summer’s lease hath all
too short a date; too short a date; too short a date;

Sometime too hot the eye of Sometime too hot the eye of Sometime too hot the eye of
heaven shines, heaven shines, heaven shines,

And often is his gold And often is his gold And often is his gold
complexion dimm'd; complexion dimm'd; complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair And every fair from fair And every fair from fair
sometime declines, sometime declines, sometime declines,

By chance or nature’s By chance or nature’s By chance or nature’s


changing course untrimm'd; changing course untrimm'd; changing course untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall But thy eternal summer shall But thy eternal summer shall
not fade, not fade, not fade,

Nor lose possession of that Nor lose possession of that Nor lose possession of that
fair thou ow’st; fair thou ow’st; fair thou ow’st;

Nor shall death brag thou Nor shall death brag thou Nor shall death brag thou
wander’st in his shade, wander’st in his shade, wander’st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time When in eternal lines to time When in eternal lines to time
thou grow’st: thou grow’st: thou grow’st:

So long as men can breathe So long as men can breathe So long as men can breathe
or eyes can see, or eyes can see, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this So long lives this, and this So long lives this, and this
gives life to thee. gives life to thee. gives life to thee.

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