In "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" ... The last quatrain and the couplet of "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" demonstrates this in lines 9-14: But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ... "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" ... Frost begins the poem with an interesting relation, an "acquaintan...

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There's a clear relation between structure and content. ... In the 3rd line there's an irregularity in keen teeth-( )- and I think its purpose is to emphasize that even the tiger, almost a fabulous animal in Shakespeare time, was subject to decay. ... In line 6 there's an imperative form "do whatever followed by thou wilt - - a deviation in the metre pattern that reinforces the rethorical force of the argument. ... In the same line But I forbid thee one- x x x- ; a deviation in the pattern that gives prominence to this direct object -Time- which stays in a subordinated posi...

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As I have read, Tennyson's notions of time are initially dependent upon the strict division between human time and time existing in nature, the first is linear, the second one is cyclical. ... As we can see in section 13 the poet is confused by this intertwining of dream and reality and I think that for the poet the appropriate solution is death, in order to remove this grief.  What is more, in section 95 lines 42-43 time and death appear as cause and effect; however, this relation is only true for human time. ... I agree with the opinion that Tennyson, throughout the poem, tries t...

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