darling+buds+of+May



In the poem Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day, Shakespeare compares a woman to a flower bud of May. This metaphor is describing how the woman has not bloomed into her full beauty yet. In May the flowers are still buds from the cold and harsh winter, but soon they will bloom into a beautiful flower. The woman Shakespeare is talking about has not reached her full beauty yet, but will soon. Throughout the rest of the poem he explains how she is not so pretty but thats why he loves her. This metaphor is in the beginning of the poem because it explains why she is not perfect.