1 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
2 Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
3 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
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And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
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Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
6 And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
7 And every fair from fair sometime declines,
8. By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
• But thy eternal summer shall not fade.
10 Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
11 Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
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So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
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So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
How does the speaker of the poem believe the beauty of nature compares to the beauty of the person he is addressing?
SELECT AN ANSWER
A. The poem's subject is nowhere near as beautiful as things found in nature.
B. The sun is more beautiful and bright than the poem's subject.
C. Seasons change and natural beauty eventually fades.
However, the beauty of the poem's subject will never fade.
D. The poem's subject is as beautiful as natural objects, but her beauty will fade just as natural beauty fades.