Specific question about a metaphor in sonnet 18?

Question

I'm not looking for a hole interpratation, I think I've understood the main idea but I'm not so sure why Shakespeare wrote "eye of heaven" instead of the sun. I think it has a much deeper meaning than that?
Does someone has an idea?
Thank you


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 EVE OF HEAVEN shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Answer 1

I have always believed that represented God and how sometimes God was watching him too closely. Remember that this sonnet was written to a young man and not a woman. Note in the next line, his gold complexion is dimmed - God is displeased with this relationship. Pax - C.

Answer 2

People are over interpreting this. The eye of heaven just means the sun. It's just a poetic way of naming the sun. And when his gold complexion is dimmed, it just means you're looking at it through a London fog.

Answer 3

"eye of heaven" fits the metre (iambic pentametre) which is very strict throughout.

Sometime too hot the sun shines

not only sounds just plain bad, but it doesn't give the line sufficient syllables. [edit] stresses

Answer 4

I think it has to do with 'metaphor' ... commonlly used by shakespeare in Plays and Poetry... Hasn't it???

Answer 5

I have this one memorized, and it's really gud
he says that cuz the eye of god is the sun.
you know, when you say, 'this person eye seemed to sparkle/shine?
yah, he's comparing ot to god