I chose this poem by Shakespeare because I felt like I understood it best. I have never read Shakespeare, unless assigned to do so in a class. I just seam to understand his writing easier than some of the others. I feel this poem represents the "Good" side of love, in a way that others might not.
The Good Side of Love
In this poem, the "Good" side of love is saying that you should look inside yourself and look beyond the ugliness and nastiness of the outside and ultimately believe that you are beautiful in your own way. Love is an inner beauty and should be treated that way always. Basically, love needs to "roll with the changes" so to speak. Whatever curveball life throws at you, you should change with it and always remember who you are and what you stand for.
The poem is a praise to a friend without oustentation, but slowly builds that friends image into the perfect being. The friend is first compared to summer, and then morphs into pure beauty, which all should be judged by. Shakespeare wants to preserve his friends beauty forever in his memory.
In this poem the comparison of a summers day has a few interesting meanings. I think that "Summer" in this poem respresents the beauty in the world. The first few lines are saying that summer doesn't last forever, "rough winds" shake things up and that is where you need to roll with any changes that come your way. "The eye of heaven" is the sun "and often is his gold complexion dimmed" is when natures throws in some clouds to try and dampen any feelings one may be having about another or even themself. "But the eternal summer sall not fade" is saying that the beauty that is your love, will never fade. The last portion of the poem says that as long as this love is there, and you believe in the inner beauty, love will not fade. Thou summer passes quickly, beauty lasts forever. And this should be apparent to anyone who sees it.