ants the image of his love to live forever. "So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
             Personal Interpretation: Sonnet 18 means eternal love and beauty. When he says, "Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade." he means that even death can not take away her beauty and his love because she is everlasting. That is why " a summer's day" can not compare to her because it is not everlasting. Shakespeare's words and images makes me feel the same for his subject. This woman of such surpassing beauty "...more lovely and more temperate" than a summer's day lives on through his words. Every time I read this, I feel more and more wonder for a person that I don't even know because her "... eternal summer shall not fade."
             Summary: Shakespeare is explaining that his mistress is not that beautiful. He shows the reader all that is wrong with her and her imperfections like "... in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks:" or " If hairs be wires, black wires grow from her head. However, with all that is wrong with her, he still thinks that his love is just as beautiful than any other woman. "I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare."
             1) Simile- "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun:" Shakespeare uses a comparison using like or as all through out the poem to show what his mistress is not similar too.
             2)Imagery- "I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound." He chose these words to describe the way her hair is and it plants an image in the readers mind of a head of "wires".
             3) Irony- "And yet, by Heaven, I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare." No matter how many things are imperfect about his mistress, he still...