Poem Sonet 18

Subject -

The poem relates to the beautiful nature of this wonderful person, his beloved. The subject of the poem is the everlasting love and beauty of a person who the persona deeply loves and admires. The beauty of summer is not as great as the beauty of his beloved. The persona reveals his deep love for this person, who is extraordinary and will be immortal in the poem forever.

Theme -

- The positive and negative aspects of nature (summer)
- Eternal beauty of a person
- Wondrous love

The persona tells that summer which symbolises warmth and brightness is short and brings uneasiness and discomfort. The sun, for example, is too hot at times during summer, and at
other times it is dim or dull, and gives a gloomy effect on life. The wind during summer is strong or rough and does not bring much comfort to one. The rough winds shake off the bud of flowers and fewer flowers are around.

The persona finds the summer of his love, truly an everlasting beauty. The love of his life is greater than the summer and is for eternal. While summer is just an experience for a short period, the beauty of his love, lasts forever. Her beauty has no end, the summer of his life, which he experiences through his wondrous love is forever.

While summer may just be a point in time, his beauty will live on forever whenever someone reads the poem and discovers the true beauty of his love.

Moral Value -

The poem deals with eternal love and appreciation of a beautiful person. We learn to appreciate beauty. We also learn to appreciate nature, as nature has both its strong and weak points.

The poem reminds us that there is nothing that would last forever. The beautiful person that is compared to summer is said to last forever, as long as men read and appreciate the poem. The poet teaches us to appreciate poetry to understand the messages that the poet wishes to convey to the readers.

The poem also teaches us to think about life and death. Life is a mystery to be lived, while death ends everything. But the beauty of the persona’s beloved lives forever and there is no death for her. The poem acts as a document of history which keeps the persona’s love alive over periods of time, and allows his beloved to live forever. She becomes immortal and her eternal summer lasts forever.