Question

Which of the following best describes the function of “Time” in the following poem, Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare?

Answer 1

A) because he says his lover is lovely like summer(Shall I compare the to a summer’s day?), but that summer ends( And summer’s lease hath all too short a date) the he says the loveliness will live on forever (But thy eternal summer shall not fade) because he wrote about it (When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st- So long lives this, and gives life to thee.)