How does Sonnet 18 (shakespeare) make use of the setting?

Question

And how does it use imagery?

What qualities does the poem evoke in the reader?


What is the world view and the ideology of the poem?


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Answer 1

Sonnet 18 is perhaps the best known and most well-loved of all 154 sonnets. It is also one of the most straightforward in language and intent. The stability of love and its power to immortalize the poetry and the subject of that poetry is the theme.

Check here for answers:
http://shakespeare.about.com/od/studentresources/a/sonnet18guide_2.htm

Answer 2

Do you understand in general terms what the poem is saying? The speaker is telling his beloved, "Comparing you to a day in summer might be a typical poetic way of saying how beautiful you are, but it wouldn't really do you justice. After all, things that bloom and flourish in the summertime don't last very long. The seasons keep on changing and everything that lives in the sunlight is eventually going to die. I'm offering you a better deal. By writing this poem about you, I'm guaranteeing that the memory of your beauty and my love for you will last forever. Not just for a few summer months, but forever."

Frankly, I'm not sure I understand the questions about setting, worldview, and ideology. But I'll bet you can easily find images in the poem -- physical things that represent life and summer (flowers and the sun, for example), or death, or the readers of the poem, readers who were not yet born when it was written, who will keep the loved one's memory eternally alive.