![]() ![]() With the passage of time fairness of fair object loses its brilliance and brevity. The supereminences of all earthy beauty is stated in a beautiful line – “And every fair from fair some time declines”. More over, its beauty is ephemeral, whereas the beauty of beloved youth is eternal. Secondly, summer’s beauty is inconstant as the sun sometimes is too hot or sometimes dimmed by clouds. ![]() Firstly, he feels that ‘more lovely and temperate’ is the form of beloved youth than the summer day. He considers that a comparison between the beloved youth and a summer day would be in appropriate and inadequate. Though the poet identifies youth with the beautiful manifestation of nature, yet the youth is more “lovely and temperate”. Now as the poem progresses the answer to this question is elaborately given to us. ![]() The poem begins with a rhetorical question – shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Here the pronoun ‘thee’ is obviously ‘youth’ which forms a parallel to his fair friend.
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