Answer:
The Black Death.
Explanation:
The Black Death report first recorded at Messina, in Sicily in 1347. The plague continued for three years and killed one-third of all the people in Europe. It began to spread in Europe through the trade route that connected the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. The Medieval cities with the trading connection, effected by the epidemic as it was the centre of ports where ships arrived with infected rats. Many deaths occurred in the trading city-states, which were in the coastal region.
Answer: a) The speaker declares that his beloved’s loveliness will live on forever through his poetry, unlike the short-lived summer season.
Explanation:
Everything will eventually die with time. Even the sun is not spared death with time. That is the function of time, to eventually kill everything and leave it in Death's shade.
This is what William Shakespeare speaks of in this poem. He infers that summer will fade with time and so will her beauty but that he has found a way to circumvent time by writing of her beauty in a poem. And for as long as people can read, her beauty will never be killed by time for it will last forever.
