Question

What are most closely the central themes of Sonnet 18?

Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
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;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Question 8 options:


a)
love and immortality


b)
nature and death


c)
uncertainty and time


d)
nature and man

Answer 1

Love and immortality because Shakespeare is saying that the love he has for his partner will live on within this poem, so she, in turn, will be immortal.

Answer 2

Answer: a) love and immortality

Explanation: In "Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare, the option that most closely shows the central themes is love and immortality. It is because of love that the author writes this sonnet. These lines will always praise her beauty. Although the passing time will affect others, death is not going to get her. She is immortal in the lines of the sonnet.