Elizabethan Poetry Journal

Title: Sonnet 18 Author: William Shakespeare Summary: In Shakespeare's sonnet 18 he starts of the poem with the question, “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” Then the author explains why he shouldn’t because unlike the summer’s day that eventually fades away, her beauty and “eternal summer shall not fade.” Not even death can hide her beauty because “so long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, so long lives this, and …

…was even more common to die at 50 instead of 80 like it is today. He repeatedly brought up time as the key reason to act now because back then people did not live that long do to illness, and inadequate medical care. However this poem Does not only have to apply to virginity. There are many other things that apply to Carpe Diem. However the speaker was more likely just trying to get in her pants.