Carefully re-read William Shakespeare’s “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day.

Carefully re-read William Shakespeare’s “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day.”
Review the material in Ch. 19, “Figures of Speech.”
This is a poem based on comparisons, especially similes and metaphors. What comparisons does the speaker in the poem use to praise his lady-love? List them.
Find at least one other poem in the list of readings that relies on comparisons for its power to move and interest you. Which do you prefer? Why?
This list is
Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”(p. 694)
Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays” (p. 696)
Rich, “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” (p. 697)
Anonymous, “Sir Patrick Spence” (p.698)
Frost, “Out, Out-” (p. 699)
Browning, “My Last Duchess” (p. 701)
Trethewey, “White Lies” (p. 713)
Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (p. 716)
Bishop, “The Fish” (p. 769)
Shakespeare, “Shall I compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” (p. 786)
Dunbar, “We Wear the Mask” (p. 877)
Pound, “Salutation” (p. 887)
Hardy, “Neutral Tones’ (p. 905)
Neruda, “Muchos Somos/We Are Many” (p. 963)
Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale” (p. 980)
Poe, “Annabel Lee” (p. 985)
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