How does Shakespeare show that beauty is immortal in the Sonnet no 18?
- Sonnet 18 is one of the best known and most loved of all 154 sonnets which are written by William Shakespeare, who is the national poet of England. The sonnet describes the power of love as well as the immortality of the poem. Shakespeare’s poetry is one of the noblest examples of accomplishing an immortal sense of creative identity. His poetry is a symbol for the immortality of the artist and timelessness. In this poem, he uses many descriptions of summer, love and eternal beauty wherein the main comparison of the poem is the beauty of the person and summer. The poet thinks that his beloved should not be compared to a summer’s day as he believes that the young person is even more beautiful than the summer’s day. ‘But your youth shall not fade’ and ‘Nor will you lose the beauty that you possess, in these couplets the poet wants to explain to us how everything beautiful will at times lose its beauty but his beloved will never lose her beauty and stay beautiful forever. Through these couplets Shakespeare wants to tell us that the beauty of every beautiful thing decreases and is spoiled accidentally or naturally but his beloved will never lose her beauty.
Shakespeare claims that the youth is more beautiful than the summer’s day and also as immortal as Shakespeare’s sonnet. At last, Shakespeare states that this sonnet will live and immortalize the youth as long as the human remain alive and as long as men can read. In other words the youthful beauty of the young person would be preserved forever in the poet’s immortal lines.
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