“Shall I compare you to a summer's day?” In William Shakespeare's sonnet “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?” the audience is introduced to a poem in which he himself delves into the person he is infatuated with. The author does not provide any kind of hint to tell the audience who the poem is addressed to because it can be either male or female. That's the interesting part of William Shakespeare's work which is second hand second hand guessing yourself and thinking differently. Making you think and think rationally when you read his work. The sonnet "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" is one of his most famous and published poems. Shakespeare's tone of voice at the beginning of the poem is quite relaxed and joyful as he continues to talk about the person he is intrigued by. Throughout the piece Metaphors, similes and images can be found in the poem itself. This type of sonnet is divided into 3 parts. Author William Shakespeare begins his poem with his most famous line which is "shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" (Shakespeare 771). Just by looking at the first line you can clearly see that this is a simile because it basically states that it is comparing its beauty to that of a summer day. The reason he compares them is because, as we know, summer days are more than usual extremely hot, windy, joyful and full of life and that is exactly what Shakespeare is doing in this verse. It is linking both the lover and the poem together and implying that he/she is as beautiful as or even more than a summer's day. It would be classified as a synecdon because it uses the summer day as a way to represent the whole. You can also agree that it can be considered an image because just with that little line...in the middle of the paper...dreaded time. Sometimes he seemed angry that time was passing too quickly and it wasn't enough for him to spend the summer with his beloved. Other times he spent them glorifying how beautiful his beloved was and how beauty could never be taken away. He sometimes makes it difficult for the audience to take his reason seriously because at some point in the poem he seems to have contradicted himself. I found that this poem had a share of metaphors, similes, imagery, and personification throughout the poem. He begins the poem with a simile and ends it with a personification of the poem. Work cited Shakespeare, William. "Should I compare you to a summer's day?" Literature: An introduction to fiction, poetry, drama, and writing. XJ Kennedy and Dana Gioia. Bosto:Pearson,2013.771. Press.