The three sonnets I have chosen to use are: “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? by William Shakespeare, “How Can I Love Thee?” Let me count the ways” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and “From brass, neither stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea” also by William Shakespeare. In these three sonnets I will explore the themes of beauty/love, eternity and time. I chose these three sonnets because they are all different but all explore similar themes. The theme of love and beauty is explored in all of these sonnets. With “Should I compare you to a summer day?” Shakespeare talks about how her beauty will last forever, even though he compares his lover to summer, he states that her beauty will be much longer than summer because summer's lease has too short a date and your eternal summer will not fade, this is because unlike its beauty, summer is temporal and will not last forever while its beauty will exist beyond time, because it is eternal. But with “From brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,” he seems to doubt the strength of its beauty. How with this rage will beauty hold a plea whose action is no stronger than a flower? it's because beauty can be seen as weak but he values ​​beauty and thinks she is gentle and can be crushed because she faces a much more physical threat and I think Shakespeare is trying to make us thinking that beauty can't win. In “How Do I Love You?” Let me count the ways” Browning uses a lot of repetition to get her message across and prove her love, I love you, I think it's because she wants to show not only the strength of her love but also her passion and her devotion to him as "She constantly repeats herself. The theme of eternity plays an important role... middle of paper... in a summer day?" Where Volta shows her change of heart, but its mysteries are always explained in the final verse, making the intention clear. However, Browning's sonnet seemed quite clear from the start and makes it quite boring because of how she doesn't describe the mystery and how she keeps repeating herself to make sure she is heard and everyone world understands his dedication. His sonnet is just one long answer like Shakespeare's is, but his doesn't seem as interesting because the answer might need more detail and it might be shown with a sense of conviction and a sense of strength because Even though the repetitions make the sonnet seem confident, it also makes it seem weak because the idea of ​​having to repeat yourself just to make sure you convince the other person and maybe somehow she tries to convince herself.