Sonnet 18

After reading Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, I began to understand exactly what the speaker was trying to convey. In the beginning he compares a woman to a summer's day, yet he concedes that a summer's day can sometimes be dimmed by weather, become too hot, and all in all, lasts too short of a time. He then begins to talk about how nature always changes, and that nothing ever lasts for an extended period of time. The he writes about her beauty and how it is timeless and how it doesn't matter if she grows old and passes on, her beauty will live on eternally in the words he has written. He ends the sonnet saying, that as long as this poem exists and men can live and breathe and see, they will always know and understand the forever beauty of this woman, Even if it's just through the lines of this sonnet.