Keeping love alive is not easy. We know that life eventually comes to an end, but does love? Time passes and the days must end. It is in Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 that we see a challenge to the idea that love is finite. Shakespeare shows us how a certain love is eternal and will live forever compared to a beautiful summer day. Shakespeare has a way of keeping love alive in "Sonnet 18", and he uses various techniques to demonstrate how love is brighter and everlasting than a summer's day. The first technique Shakespeare uses to demonstrate undying love is to ask the question "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" (1) This leads the reader to ask further questions. Love is Is the person the speaker admires as charming and kind as a summer day? These questions are answered in the second line: "You are more?" beautiful and more temperate' This shows that the person whom the speaker admires is more beautiful, calmer and more understanding than a summer day is inferior to the person admired, and the love of the one who. speaks for this person is eternal. If anyone has ever experienced a beautiful summer day, they will see that the trees tremble in the wind The leaves eventually fall from the once lively spring buds. imagery to develop his idea of ​​love in the third line: “The violent winds shake the cherished buds of May.” With this, Shakespeare tells us that even if the winds of a summer shake the beauty of the trees, they will not shake the speaker's inner feelings of love. Summer days are limited; they are short and will end soon. Every year summer ends. Yes, maybe it will start again next year but...... middle of paper ......agree with the sonnet and its final verse. This structure, along with the iambic pentameters, stressed and unstressed syllables, engages the reader in the argument Shakespeare is making for eternal love. The structure of a Shakespearean sonnet helps to emphasize eternal love. This also allows the reader to correctly read the sonnet as Shakespeare intended. Shakespeare chose sonnet forms to develop his idea of ​​eternal love with questions, images, metaphors, rhyme schemes, and structure. Without these techniques, we could not have the correct perspective that the beauty of love prevails over the beauty of nature; also how nature is not permanent and the sonnet will be eternal. Works Cited Shakespeare, William. “Sonnet 18.” Introduction to literature. Ed. Isobel M Findlay et al. 5th ed. Canada: Thomson Nelson, 2004. 133-134.