Question

Sonnet 18

by William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Is this sonnet an example of a simile, a metaphor, or an analogy?

Answer 1

the sonnet is a metaphor

Answer 2

Sonnet 18 is an example of a metaphor.

Step-by-step explanation:

William Shakespeare in his Sonnet 18 has compared the beauty of a young man with summer. In the first line of the sonnet, the young man has been compared with a day in the summer. Both possess the qualities of being 'lovely' and 'temperate'. This is an example of a metaphor in the sonnet. The comparison of the young man and the day of the summer has been prevalent in the sonnet.