Compare And Contrast Shakespeare And Sonnet 18

The stages of development throughout life, is often compare to the five Seasons. In William Shakespeare poem Sonnet 18, he compared summer to youth by exposing the negative side of summer that people rarely thinks about. In this essay, I will demonstrate how Shakespeare compares summer to youth. The form Shakespeare use to compare the two, is that he did this poem as a sonnet. Sonnet is a type of poem that has quatrains with a specific rhyming scheme and a rhyming couplet at the end. Shakespeare’s sonnet 18 is a 14-line iambic pentameter poem. It has 3 quatrains with a rhyming couplet at the end. This means that there are 3, four lines stanza with alternating lines rhyming and 2 lines stanza rhyming pairs at the end. He also uses poetic devices to compare summer and youth, which are going to be discussed in this essay. William Shakespeare compares summer to youth throughout this poem. In the first line of this poem, he says, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” (l.1). Even though this line didn’t say exactly what he is comparing summer to, it shows that summer is being compared. This line also tells the reader that Shakespeare is the one speaking in the poem. He addresses youth and begins to compare it to summer with the poetic device of imagery. He says, “Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;” (ll. 2-4). In these lines, Shakespeare starts out with a