Imagery Is Sonnet 18. The poet has even gone further to label the buds as darling shakespeare 3. Like many sonnets of the era the poem takes the form of a direct address to an unnamed subject.
Of shakespeare s sonnets in the text this is one of the most moving lyric poems that i have ever read. Shakespeare sonnet 18 this sonnet is by far one of the most interesting poems in the book. On the surface the poem is simply a statement of praise about the beauty of the beloved.
Sonnet 18 is also known by the title shall i compare thee to a.
Like many sonnets of the era the poem takes the form of a direct address to an unnamed subject. Sonnet 18 is also known by the title shall i compare thee to a. Sonnet 18 is an english or elizabethan sonnet meaning it contains 14 lines including three quatrains and a couplet and is written in iambic pentameter. Some imagery used in sonnet 18 by william shakespeare include a summer day winds shaking the buds in may and a gold complexion.