ithout ostentation, but he slowly builds the image of his confidant into that of a perfect being. His confidant is first compared to a 'summers day' in the octave. However at the beginning of the third quatrain (line 9), he is the summer ' thy eternal summer', and thus, he has metamorphosed into the standard by which true beauty can and should be determined by. Shakespeare's only explanation to such profound joy and beauty is to ensure that his friend is forever in human memory
             'Long lives this and this gives life to thee',
             Saved from ultimate oblivion that accompanies death. He achieves this through his verse, believing that, as history writes itself, his friend will become one with time. The couplet reaffirms the poet's hope that as long as there is breath in mankind, his poetry too will live on, and ensure the immortality of his muse, for' long lives this and this gives life to thee.'
             The transience of material things is a theme that recurs throughout that of Rossetti's poetry, and the resigned but passionate sadness of unhappy love is often a dominant note. For example in 'Princes Progress', Remember, 'Spring' and also 'Another Spring. ' 'Sonnet' depicts one of the central human trag
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