Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, Sometime = on occasion, sometimes The summer holds a lease on part of the year, but the lease is too short, and has an early termination ( date).
And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, May was a summer month in Shakespeare's time, because the calendar in use lagged behind the true sidereal calendar by at least a fortnight.ĭarling buds of May - the beautiful, much loved buds of the early summer favourite flowers. more temperate - more gentle, more restrained, whereas the summer's day might have violent excesses in store, such as are about to be described.
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: The youth's beauty is more perfect than the beauty of a summer day. Such reminiscences are indeed anachronistic, but with the recurrence of words such as 'summer', 'days', 'song', 'sweet', it is not difficult to see the permeating influence of the Sonnets on Wordsworth's verse. The summer's day is found to be lacking in so many respects (too short, too hot, too rough, sometimes too dingy), but curiously enough one is left with the abiding impression that 'the lovely boy' is in fact like a summer's day at its best, fair, warm, sunny, temperate, one of the darling buds of May, and that all his beauty has been wonderfully highlighted by the comparison.Ī summer's day? This is taken usually to mean 'What if I were to compare thee etc?' The stock comparisons of the loved one to all the beauteous things in nature hover in the background throughout. The poem also works at a rather curious level of achieving its objective through dispraise. Now, perhaps in the early days of his love, there is no such self-doubt and the eternal summer of the youth is preserved forever in the poet's lines. It is noticeable that here the poet is full of confidence that his verse will live as long as there are people drawing breath upon the earth, whereas later he apologises for his poor wit and his humble lines which are inadequate to encompass all the youth's excellence.
But it would be a mistake to take it entirely in isolation, for it links in with so many of the other sonnets through the themes of the descriptive power of verse the ability of the poet to depict the fair youth adequately, or not and the immortality conveyed through being hymned in these 'eternal lines'. This is one of the most famous of all the sonnets, justifiably so.
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