When I think of sonnets, Sonnet 18 is the first to come to mind. It is probably Shakespeare’s most famous sonnet and justly so, as it uses an immeasurable amount of symbolization to put across many strong feelings. This sonnet seems to reveal Shakespeare’s true admiration and perhaps even love for the attractive young man. Shakespeare first attempts to compare the young man to a summer day but then comes to the conclusion that he is “more lovely and more temperate,” giving him the beautiful qualities of summer without being uncomfortably hot. He also makes him better than summer by saying that he outlasts it. This I found to be somewhat surprising as in the past sonnets, Shakespeare encourages the boy that the only way to make his good looks last forever is by having children, but here Shakespeare says that through this poem, the boy is now immortal and will live on forever. This sonnet definitely says a lot about how much Shakespeare really cared for the young man.
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