Question

What tone does the narrator use in the excerpt from Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare?

Answer 1

Romantic is the correct answer.

Answer 2

Answer: The right answer is the A) Romantic.

Explanation: Just to elaborate a little on the answer, it can be added that the tone in this famous and beautiful sonnet (one of the more than a hundred that he wrote) is clearly romantic, since the speaker is praising the beloved one, establishing a comparison between him and the summer. The beloved one is, nevertheless, superior, "more lovely and temperate," and his beauty does not perish ("But thy eternal summer shall not fade / Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st [...]"), since it will always be preserved in this poem ("When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st [...]").