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 the line from “sonnet 18” by william shakespeare.
but thy eternal summer shall not fade.
what is the best paraphrase of this line?
this hot summer
will last forever.
my love for this
season will go on
and on.
you are eternal
and will never die.
your youthful
beauty will not
disappear.

Explanation:

In "Sonnet 18", the "eternal summer" is a metaphor for the beloved's youthful beauty. The line "But thy eternal summer shall not fade" means the beloved's youthful beauty will not disappear. Let's analyze each option:

• "This hot summer will last forever": The "summer" here is not the literal hot summer but a metaphor for beauty, so this is incorrect.
• "My love for this season will go on and on": The line is about the beloved's beauty, not the speaker's love for the season, so this is incorrect.
• "You are eternal and will never die": The line is about beauty not fading, not about being eternal in life, so this is incorrect.
• "Your youthful beauty will not disappear": This matches the metaphorical meaning of "eternal summer" as youthful beauty and "not fade" as not disappearing.

Answer:

Your youthful beauty will not disappear.