Explore The Different Attitudes Towards Love With Reference to Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” and “Sonnet 116” and Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover”.

... Elizabeth Stephens 11N Explore The Different Attitudes Towards Love With Reference to Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18" and "Sonnet 116" and Browning's "Porphyria's Lover". "Sonnet 18", "Shall I Compare Thee", Is written to express love. Shakespeare opens the sonnet with the question, "Shall I compare thee to a summers day?" He then proceeds to do just that. At the beginning of the first quatrain, Shakespeare answers that question by saying that she is "more lovely and more temperate:" than a summers day. The colon after temperate shows that he is about to give us a list of reasons why she is better. This list takes up the second half of the first quatrain and the whole of the second. Shakespeare complains that the summer can have "rough windes" and doesn't last long enough. He also complains about how the summer is too extreme, varying between too hot and too cold, "Sometime

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