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SONNET 18/Shall I compare Thee To a Summer's Day?


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 dimmed;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,

Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest 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.



What is the theme? I believe this really is not about love, rather it is about poetry or art, and it is the love of these forms that keep them alive. My reason for this thought, is because of the last 2 couplets. The "this" in the last line speaks of poetry or art, which lasts, or stays immortal