Everlasting Beauty and Love Beauty is the qualities deep within a person that brings pleasure and joy and it measures beyond just looks and styles, moreover, beauty shines from the inside out. Shakespeare emphasizes the beauty within a person as it shows throughout his poetry specifically in sonnet 18 and 55. The time individuals have on earth does not last forever as aging and death slowly take over, nonetheless, beauty and memories will last forever through Shakespeare’s writings. In both of these poems, Shakespeare focus on the beauty of each human as he ingrains the memories and love he has for his loved one in his writings. In Shakespeare’s sonnets, his focus is on a person, a guy or girl, who he describes in detail in both of his sonnets. In sonnet 18, the heart of the poem is based around a friend of his as they are described as a perfect human being. Not only does he describe his loved one as this perfect person, he illustrates the season of summer in which he believes is not all the best. Some elements are being described such as the temperature when it is baking hot, rough winds howling, and mother nature as it strikes ever so often. Shakespeare says in the last line of his poem, “So long lives this and this gives life to thee” which means good or bad events do not last forever, but the beauty within his loved one will never fade. Comparingly, Shakespeare writes in sonnet 55, about the love he has for a dear friend of his in the time of grief and death. He is