This sonnet starts out with the speaker comparing the subject to summer, saying he is like a summer’s day. By the third quatrain, the speaker says the young man is summer, therefore transforming into the standard by which true beauty should be measured. This sonnet immortalizes the young man. The speaker says, “But your youth shall not fade, Nor will you lose the beauty that you possess; Nor will death claim you for his own, Because in my eternal verse you will live forever.” The speaker is saying that as long as this poem exists, so will the young man’s beauty.
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