By William Shakespeare
Line to line Analysis
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Thee: probably earl of Southampton or earl of Pembroke of whom Shakespeare was very fond off.
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More lovely and more temperate: Shakespeare considered the summer of nature as beautiful but it is temporary where as his friend’s beauty is more lovely and more permanent.
Temperate: the summer sometimes expresses soothing attitude under the cloudy atmosphere which is naturally temporary whereas the temperance of his friend is more permanent.
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Rough wind: In the period of summer sometimes there arises of violent storm which distress the beauty of nature and summer by shaking off the symbolic blossoms.
May: symbolic expressions of full bloom of summer.
Darling buds of May – the beautiful, much loved buds of the early summer; favourite flowers.
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Lease: span of time
All too short a date: very temporary
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Eye of heaven: the Sun
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His: Sun
Gold complexion: sparkling shinning
Dimm’d: diffused. That means beauty of summer fluctuates with the course of nature, but the beauty of his friend will remain permanent for ever.
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And every fair from fair: sometimes due to summer’s whim the beauty of a beautiful thing is lost.
Declines: trim, shake off
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By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed: like nature human life can lost the beauty at the facing an accident accidentally or after death as a course of life.
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Eternal summer: eternal beauty of his friend.
Fade: the beauty of his friend will never decline unlike the beauty of summer.
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That fair: the beauty with which his friend is destined.
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Brag: vanity, bright
Death brag: here Shakespeare slither the perennial power of death which can decline the beauty of everything in his dark shade. Here comes the win of beauty over death and time.
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When in eternal times: the verses will be eternal as it would be read down the generation who would come across the beauty of his friend. Thus he will be immortalised.
Thou growest: the beauty of his friend will ever be increasing.
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So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see: For as long as humans live and breathe upon the earth, for as long as there are seeing eyes on the earth.
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This: the poems which will be immortal forever.
This gives life to thee: the immortal poem would give immortality to you.
