Shakespeare Love Poem Analysis

1. The speaker in this poem is a poet but it is not to be confused with William Shakespeare as it is not stated that the poet is indeed Shakespeare. The speaker is very full of himself and controversial as he compared summer with his lover and ultimately insulted summer throughout the poem. The speaker is very full of himself as he says that he can immortalize his lover in his poetry due to the fact that people will continue to read his work and although that is true the speaker still seems a little bit boastful.

2. The speaker is speaking to his lover as he is constantly comparing her with the season of summer as it is his way of saying that to him she is better than a season that is generally loved by many. An appropriate audience would

The theme of this poem is the infatuation with immortality that the speaker has and although it seems to be a love poem for his beloved there are times where it feels like the poem is about himself. This poem’s purpose is to display a no typical love poem as there are parts where the speaker seems to hold some resentment for his lover and sort of focuses on himself, his poetry, and his abilities.

8. The setting seems to take place during a warm, breezy, and typical summer day. The speaker seems to incorporate summer into his poem because it is currently summer for him. The speaker also seems to describe the setting with a weather that has sudden outbursts of heat and moments of shade but ultimately the sun always shines through the clouds.

9. The speaker of this poem tries to simplify nature and fate as much as he can so that he can jump over them with his poetry. This is an allusion for society today as many seem to believe that we can somehow find a way to cheat death or at least extend life expectancy as if nature did not even exist. Both the speaker and society today fail to realize that nature and fate is not something you can control so no matter how much effort is put in it won’t

The poem’s diction seems to be focused on describing summer and nature in general. The speaker focuses on describing summer and how it compares to his lover. The majority of description is focused on nature which just emphasizes the role that it has in the poem and in the speaker’s life as well.

12. The predominant images in the poem refer to sight and touch somewhat. There is an abundance of description used for nature and summer particularly such as describing the weather which made it easy for the readers to imagine the setting and made the whole poem easier to understand. Another predominant image could be touch as the speaker described the weather constantly such as it being warm and sunny which allowed the readers to be able to make connections and think of a sunny day and the warmth which made the poem more relatable.

14. An understatement made in this poem is the ignorance of humanity towards nature. Humans usually believe that nature is only there to benefit them when in reality it is nature that even allows humans to be able to survive. Humans think that they can cheat or jump over nature just like in the poem which has to be one of the biggest