Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
These are the last two lines of the third quatrain of "Sonnet-XVIII", composed by the famous Elizabethan poet and dramatist, William Shakespeare. In these lines the speaker of the poem very confidently declares the immortality of his friend.
friend, compares his friend's beauty with a summer's day. But soon he In this sonnet the speaker, in an attempt to praise the beauty of his remembers that the beauty of his friend is more temperate than the beauty frequently. Rough winds blow and destroy beautiful blooming buds of of a day in summer. It is because the temperature of summer changes May. Moreover, the duration of summer is very short. Consequently, the beauty of summer is not comparable to the beauty of the fair youth who is more moderate, more beautiful. The friend's beauty is unchangeable and ever lasting. Death cannot defeat him and take him to his kingdom in the underworld since he has been immortalised in the lines of this poem. The enmity of "time" has been defeated here. Thus, the poet passes on from the mortal world to the unchangeable immortal world in these lines.
