WBCHSE Board Class 12th English "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day" or Sonnet No 18 || Broad Notes || Textual Question Answers || Short Questions & Answers || Broad type Questions || Exam Oriented Questions & Answers || 2023 English Suggestive Notes || Title of Sonnet No 18 : Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day

"Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day" or Sonnet No 18 by William Shakespeare || Broad Notes || Textual Question Answers 1.) Write a note on the significance of the title ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day’. In Sonnet 18 Shakespeare hesitates to compare his friend's beauty to a summer’s day. According to him, his friend is lovelier and more temperate than summer. Summer has many shortcomings. The brightness of summer has no consistency and the time span of summer is very brief. But the poet believes that his friend has an everlasting beauty. The cold touch of death is unable to claim…