A Comparison of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 and Duffy's Valentine

A Comparison of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 and Duffy's Valentine

Shakespear's attitude towards his lover is she is superior to the

summer and very beautiful " Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

This show Shakespeare is thinking about comparing her to the summer

but then he gives examples of how she is better than the summer.

He says she is lovelier than the summer " Thou art more lovely and

more temperate."

He then goes on to say "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May"

this means that she is more like a darling bud of May than a rough

wind that come in the summer. He also explains, using a metaphor that

the summer doesn't stay forever, but she will be beautiful forever "

And summer's lease hath all too short a date."

Then he says that sometimes the sun is too hot and is hidden by clouds

but her beauty is never hidden and she is perfect. "Sometimes too hot

the eye of heaven shines. And often is his gold complexion dimm'd" He

then uses a double metaphor to explain that every living this is

doomed to die and that nature cannot stop itself from dying ...