A Comparison of Shakespeares Sonnet 18 and Duffys...

A Comparison of Shakespeares Sonnet 18 and Duffys Valentine Shakespears attitude towards his lover is she is superior to the summer and very beautiful Shall I compare thee to a summers day? This show Shakespeare is thinking about comparing her to the summer but then he gives examples of how she is better than the summer. He says she is lovelier than the summer Thou art more lovely and more temperate. He then goes on to say Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May this means that she is more like a darling bud of May than a rough wind that come in the summer. He also explains, using a metaphor that the summer doesnt stay forever, but she will be beautiful forever And summers lease hath all too short a†¦show more content†¦So long lives this and this gives life to thee. Meaning as long as people are alive can see and read and write her beauty will always live on. Duffys attitude differs from shake spears attitude because she is cynical about love but Shakespeare is more romantic. At the beginning of Valentine it is similar to Sonnet 18 because she decides not to give her lover a traditional Valentine gift because she feels it doesnt show him how she loves him and she wants him to think about their relationship so she decides she will give him an onion. This is similar to sonnet 18 because Shakespeare decides not to do that traditional comparison to describe his lover and Duffy decides not to give her lover the traditional valentine gift. She says the onion is moon wrapped in the brown paper the brown paper is the skin and the flesh of the onion is the moon. She compares the onion to the moon because moonlight is associated with romance and it also