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summer
Personification winds shaking the flowers of the
early months of summer
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
Eventually flowers from spring die off when summer
begins
Summer is too short doesnt last very long
Quatrain 1 (Argument/main metaphor): The
And summers lease hath too short a date:
person that Shakespeare is writing about is better
than summer
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, Eye of heaven = the sun
Sometimes the sun gets too overwhelming with heat-
overwhelmingly hot or too intense (not enjoyable)
His = sun (idea extended from the previous line)
And often is his gold complexion dimmd; Often times the sun goes away (cloud cover, sun goes
Quatrain 2
This = poem
As long as this poem is still being read, you will live
So long lives this, and gives life to thee. on and be immortal.
Couplet (Summary): As long as people read
this poem you will live on and be remembered