After reading and analyzing what the speaker of Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18" says, we can answer in the following manner:
The speaker says his beloved will live eternally because:
A. The beloved will be remembered as long as people can read this poem.
The speaker thinks a comparison of his beloved to a summer's day is:
B. not complimentary enough.
<h3>What the speaker says in "Sonnet 18"</h3>
In "Sonnet 18", the speaker is complimenting the person he loves. He thinks that comparing her to a summer day will not be good enough, since she has more and better qualities:
"Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate..."
The speaker also says, towards the end of the poem, that the person he loves will never die for she will be immortalized in the poem. As long as people read the poem, she will exist:
"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
With the information above in mind, we can choose options A and B respectively as the best choices.
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