Question

“sonnet 18”
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.
read these lines from “sonnet 18” by william shakespeare.
and every fair from fair sometime declines,
by chance, or nature’s changing course untrimm’d
the purpose of these lines is to
explain that beauty can fade
teach a lesson about nature
define the meaning of “fair”
argue that things never change

Explanation:

The lines “And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimm’d” describe how beauty (fair) can diminish over time, either by chance or natural change. The other options are incorrect: the poem isn't teaching about nature, defining “fair”, or arguing things never change.

Answer:

explain that beauty can fade