Sonnet 18 is one of the most beautiful sonnets of all. It uses great detail and description to embody a nearly perfect person. The poet immortalizes the youth's beauty by comparing it to a summer's day in line one. A summer's day is something that will remain unchanged and gorgeous always. In previous sonnet's the poet paints vivid pictures of a dark mistress which leads me to believe this sonnet is not about a woman of his desire. However, there is a young boy who is described as a fair beauty. A summer's day is that of golden sun and warmth, all things that draw a picture of the time's ideal beauty of blonde hair, blue eyes and fair. This sonnet now raises a question of whether the object of the poet's affection was a boy or woman.
A picture of a summer's day doesn't get much better, yet this poet goes further to say that the beauty is "more lovely and more temperate." A summer's day could get uncomfortably hot or stormy but this beauty is more gentle and calm than that of......

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Title: Henry V
Approximate Word Count: 871
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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