In his sonnet 18 "Summer's Day" William Shakespeare, pays tribute to his lady's beauty. He pays tribute to her by comparing her beauty to a beautiful summer day. Shakespeare not only compares his lady's beauty to summer, but he goes into detail of how she is more beautiful than summer. He points out that nature is not always perfect with lines like "Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines," and "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May."
             Shakespeare describes how his reasons for saying that his lady's beauty is more beautiful than a summer's day. With the line, "But thy eternal summer shall not fade, nor lose possession of that fair ow'st," Shakespeare is telling the reader that summer will pass but the beauty of his lady will be there eternally. Shakespeare chooses to close the sonnet with the lines "So long as men can breath or eyes can see," and "So long lives this, and this gives life to thee," what he is saying with these two line that the beauty of his lady will forever live on in the words of this sonnet.
             In sonnet 130 Shakespeare does not give the same flattering description of his lady's beauty as he did in sonnet 18. Instead of conjuring up images of a beautiful summer's day in the reader's imagination, the description of this lady conjures up images more similar to death than to a
             beautiful summer day. Shakespeare uses a great deal of similes and metaphors to show that his lady is not the typical standard of beauty for the time. He begins the sonnet with the simile "My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun," and continues with the use of metaphors by comparing "roses to cheeks" and "lips to coral." By using different metaphors and similes Shakespeare is helping to create images in the reader's imaginations.
             In the last two lines of the sonnet he says...