Question

According to the poet, the summer is inferior to the subject of his poem because:

. Select all that apply
it is too long
it is too short
it is too hot
it dies

Answer 1

I chose all except 'it is too long'.

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

It is too short.

It is too hot .

It dies.

Step-by-step explanation:

William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day" is a poem of love, a declaration of his love and devotion to his lover. He wonders if he should compare her to a summer's day, but then went on to say that she is far "more lovely and more temperate" than the summer's day. The summers are too short, too hot at times and even has an ed, while his beloved's being, love and very existence does not have an end for he will immortalize her in this written work.

"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."