Higher Secondary English Suggestion 2023
Poem
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
– William Shakespeare
Q:-
Significance of title./Substance./Main theme./How does the poet compare the
beauty of summer to that of his friend in his sonnet No.18?/Describe the beauty
of poet's friend.
Ans:- Title is too much important for
any literary piece. Though the world famous poet William Shakespeare left all
his sonnets unnamed. They are only numbered. The present poem is the 18th
sonnet of his sonnet group, contains 154 sonnets. He did it because he put down
154 sonnets to make up a group. So the poet didn't bother about the title of a
sonnet.
But every poem should be titled when it is treated separately. Here the
first line "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" is chosen as
it's title. So now we have to judge the significance of the chosen title. The
poem stars with an interrogative line and the rest part of the sonnet answers. The
poem is poets tribute to his best friend. He depicts the matchless beauty of
his best friend and compares it with the Summer's day. Finally finds him to be
"more lovely and more temperate. "His friend's superiority is
celebrated through the present sonnet. Though nature can be changed, but his
friend's beauty is immortal and eternal. With the time, his beauty will be
grown. It is clearly implied that, his friend's beauty is simply incomparable. As
long as the readers will read it, his friend gets life.
As the central theme of comparison is clearly expressed in itself, the title is a nice choice as well as appropriate.
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