What tone does the narrator use in the excerpt from Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare?

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

A. romantic

B. angry

C. fearful

D. puzzled

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Hailie Horne

5 April, 09:49

What tone does the narrator use in the excerpt from Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare?

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

A. romantic

B. angry

C. fearful

D. puzzled

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Amare · Answer 1

Romantic is the correct answer.

Jan Stanley · Answer 2

Answer: The right answer is the A) Romantic.

Explanation: Just to elaborate a little on the answer, it can be added that the tone in this famous and beautiful sonnet (one of the more than a hundred that he wrote) is clearly romantic, since the speaker is praising the beloved one, establishing a comparison between him and the summer. The beloved one is, nevertheless, superior, "more lovely and temperate," and his beauty does not perish ("But thy eternal summer shall not fade / Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st [ ... ]"), since it will always be preserved in this poem ("When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st [ ... ]").