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Clayton Faul Shakespearian Sonnet’s The Guide through the War Between Love, Beauty, and Time. Amazing authors can induce thoughts by a single word. The ideas that can form in our heads by a small phrase are powerful. Only the most talented and capable authors can provoke such feelings within us. Who is more than able to stir these feelings in a reader but William Shakespeare? His poetry takes us to world that hardly exists, to explore how time can be the enemy to love and Beauty. Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare is one of the more powerful ones. He writes about a love that a candle cannot be held to, because of his deep infatuation. Shakespeare wrote this sonnet when he was deeply in love with the dark lady of so they say. He starts off his sonnet by creating an image in our head of a summer day. The kind of day that children play in the sun, basically a carefree day where everything is beautiful and careless. He contemplates whether or not to compare his love to this ideal day, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” but decides against it in his second line because he feels his love is “more lovely and more temperate” than this day. He then hits us with images of natural images such as windy days that “…shake the darling buds of May,” In the next line Shakespeare takes the idea of a warm breezy summer day and twisted it into a sweltering day with the sun beating down on us. However, in the lines after the destruction of a nice day, he makes us smile by the compliments he bestows on his love. He tells us that his lover’s beauty shall remain the same for all time. “…thy…shall not fade…” By using the word eternal at the end of quatrain he gives his love the ultimate compliment by tell her that even when your wrinkled you will still be beautiful and It gives us the feeling that her beauty is one that will last until the end of the earth. She is different from everyone because she will always have what she has now unlike others that will lose it.