Shakespeare then moves on to say that the time that summer lasts for is too short conveying the fact that his lover is always there, “And summers lease hath all to short a date” this evokes the realisation that summer doesn’t last that long but his lover will last for eternity, never leaving his side.
He then indicates that the sun shines too much but his lover shines just as much as she should before it gets annoying, “Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines”, here Shakespeare uses imagery to show that instead of his lover constantly shining and showing off, she is subtle and simple, just the way that Shakespeare portrays that he likes.
Shakespeare thinks that his lover is beautiful and he obsessively believes that she will never lose her beauty, he states that any beautiful person or thing may lose their beauty but she will not, “and every fair from fair sometime declines, by chance or by nature’s changing course untrimmed” and “But thy eternal summer shall not fade, nor lose possession of thou ow’st” the summer changes and fades, his lover appears not too.
As you read further through the sonnet, Shakespeare says that his dear lover will never leave him/die and that they will infinitely be together, “Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade”, this suggests that Shakespeare believes that death will never take his beloved and it creates the picture of death stalking away as Shakespeare and his lover walk happily upon the horizon.
At the very end of the sonnet, he says that as long as humans breathe and see, so long as this sonnet gives out life, he will love his other half, “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee” This portrays the fact that in Shakespeare’s eyes, it is the unlikeliest thing in the universe that he will ever stop loving his girlfriend.
In conclusion, it seems that throughout the sonnet Shakespeare uses imagery in every way to show how he loves his girlfriend. He continuously says how the summer is inadequate and how his lover is perfect and I don’t think that anything could change that. He writes as if he is truly in love and that he doesn’t want this period to ever end, he is in love.
