In the last two lines, a couplet, the speaker asserts that not even death can remove the beauty of the person to whom this poem is addressed.
In the last two lines, a couplet, the speaker asserts that not even death can remove the beauty of the person to whom this poem is addressed. This work personifies the concept from the first line as the "eye of heaven" with its "gold complexion." Though "every fair from fair sometime declines," as in the approach of autumn, the speaker promises "thy eternal summer shall not fade" beginning with the rough winds shaking "darling buds of May." FTP, identify this famous sonnet by Shakespeare that begins with the line "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
In the last two lines, a couplet, the speaker asserts that not even death can remove the beauty of the person to whom this poem is addressed.
Sonnet {18} (accept {Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?} early)