Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare Sonnet # 18

Why does he use nature imagery to describe her? What specific images does he use?

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The speaker is eternalizing the fair lord's beauty in his verse with comparisons to nature. Although the things of nature fade and die, the lord's beauty is eternal. Yee, Shakespeare was probably writing to a man.

"Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May / And summer's lease hath all too short a date:"