What are most closely the central themes of sonnet 18?
sonnet 18 by william shakespeare
shall i compare thee to a summer’s day?
thou art more lovely and more temperate:
rough winds do shake the darling buds of may,
and summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
and often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
and every fair from fair sometime declines,
by chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
but thy eternal summer shall not fade,
nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
when in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
so long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
so long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

a)

love and immortality

b)

nature and death

c)

uncertainty and time

d)

nature and man

a)  love and immortality.

Explanation:

In this famous sonnet written by Shakespeare, the speaker compares the beauty of his loved one to a summer´s day, and he then goes on to proclaim that the love he feels is immortal and will never perish nor beauty will ever decay since he was put down in words this feeling of love and beauty, so that, as long as the poet´s lines exist and there is somebody to read them, the beauty of his loved one will, just as much as the poem, live forever.

the animal shelter ad with animals in cages, starving and dying.

explanation:

the answers are:

1. dolores driscoll - b. first person minor

dolores is a minor character who happens to be driving the bus at the time of the accident. she narrates picking up each of the children and her last memory is the children being thrown around the bus.

2. billy ansel - a. first person major

billy loses his twins in the accident. he tells his own story, how he witnessed the accident and how he tried to the rescuers. he is a major character, as he is at the center of the story.

3. mitchell stephens - c. first person observer

mitchell enters the story after the accident. he is a lawyer who learns about the accident based on other characters observations. though he tells the story from a first person perspective, he is just an observer.

as for matcthing the message or lesson posted with the person who said them:

1."obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. i'm an optimist basically who acts like a pessimist. on principle. just in case." - dolores driscoll

2. "i could no longer believe even in life. . for me now the only reality was death." - billy ansel