Ans: In Shakespeare's sonnet "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" which belongs to his first sonnet sequence, the poet opens the poem with a question if the poet would compare his friend to a summer's day. According to the poet, everything is subjected to decay. The powerful impact of 'Time' will spare nothing even summer, spring's beautiful bud or sun's brightness. Everything is fated to decline or fade 'by chance, or nature's changing course'. But the poet thinks that his friend will outdo the summer's day in beauty, personality; the spring's bud, summer and the sun in lasting as he will never die and the beauty and youth that he possesses will remain forever. He believes so because as long as there is breath in the mankind, his poetry too will live on and it is the spell of his verse which will immortalize his friend even after his death. The magic of Shakespeare's verse will transport his friend from time to timelessness.
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