Which of the following best explains the significance of the extended metaphor in this sonnet?
Answer choices for the above question
A. Much like the speaker’s love, the weather in the summertime is often disappointing.
B. The speaker’s love is better than summer because summer, despite its reveries, is imperfect and finite.
C. The speaker was married on a summer day, and compares his love to the day he was married.
D. The speaker’s love is much like the summertime, because neither love nor summer can last forever.
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The best answer for the significance of the extended metaphor in this sonnet is B. The speaker’s love is better than summer because summer, despite its reveries, is imperfect and finite.
Which passage from the poem best supports the answer to Question 3?
Answer choices for the above question
A. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate:”
B. “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:”
C. “Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, / And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;”
D. “But thy eternal summer shall not fade / Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;”
Answer choices for the above question
A. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate:”
B. “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:”
C. “Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, / And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;”
D. “But thy eternal summer shall not fade / Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;”
The passage from the poem that best supports the answer to Question 3 is D. “But thy eternal summer shall not fade / Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st".