Keeping love alive is not easy. We know that life ends sooner or later, but what about love? Time passes and the days must end. It is in Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18" that we see a challenge to the idea that love is over. Shakespeare shows us how a certain love is eternal and will live forever compared to a beautiful summer day. Shakespeare has a way of keeping love alive in "Sonnet 18", and uses a variety of techniques to demonstrate how love is brighter and more eternal than a summer's day. The first technique Shakespeare uses to demonstrate everlasting love is to ask the question "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" (1) This leads the reader to consider other questions. Is love as bright and beautiful as a summer day? Is the person you are admiring as lovely and kind as a summer's day? These questions are answered in the second line with "Thou art more amiable and more temperate." This shows that the person the speaker admires is more beautiful, calm and understanding than a summer day. Summer is inferior to the person being admired, and the speaker's love for this person is eternal. If anyone has experienced a beautiful summer day, he will see that the trees will shake from the wind. The leaves eventually fall from the once vibrant spring buds. Shakespeare also uses the technique of imagery to develop his idea of ​​love in the third line: “The stormy winds shake the dear blossoms of May.” With this Shakespeare is telling us that although the winds of a summer shake the beauty of the trees, they will not shake the speaker's inner feelings of love. Summer days are limited; they are short and will soon end. Every year summer ends. Yes, it might start again next year but...... middle of paper ...... I agree with the sonnet and its final couplet. This structure, along with the iambic pentameters, stressed and unstressed syllables, draws the reader into the argument Shakespeare reaches for eternal love. he structure of a Shakespearean sonnet helps to emphasize eternal love. This also allows the reader to correctly read the sonnet as Shakespeare intended. Shakespeare chose sonnet forms to develop his idea of ​​eternal love with questions, images, metaphors, rhyme schemes, and structure. Without these techniques we would not be able to gain the correct perspective that the beauty of love prevails over the beauty of nature; also how nature is not permanent and the sonnet will be eternal. Works Cited Shakespeare, William. "Sonnet 18." Introduction to literature. Ed. Isobel M Findlay et al. 5th ed. Canada: Thomson Nelson, 2004. 133-134.