8/5/2023 0 Comments Iambic pentameter sonnet yahoo![]() The fifth and sixth line I see as the inevitable decline associated with mortality. These two lines show that this perfection of his love is not going to last forever and is confined within a short period of her life. ![]() Next ‘summer’s lease’ is described as being ‘too short’, which makes us think about the autumn and the winter to follow that will corrupt and decay the absolute beauty of the summer. Buds are the suggestions of beauty waiting to burst forth as flowers. I read this as a reflection on mortality as the ‘rough winds’ of May shaking the ‘darling buds’ represents the tempestuous spring, which in turn could represent a period where a woman’s beauty and attitude are being refined. I’ll mention two interpretations for lines three to six. However, his love is ‘more lovely’ and ‘more temperature’ meaning that her beauty and her personality/attitude are even more impressive than the summer’s. Suggesting summer as being similar should immediately make you think of connotations such as warm, joyful, bright and beautiful. ![]() A rhetorical question opens the sonnet, questioning whether the summer is fair enough to be compared to the poetic voice’s love.
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