Sonnet 18 - William Shakespeare

Poem	Interpration
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?	Shall I compare you to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:	You are more lovely and more delightful:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,	Rough winds shake the much loved buds of May
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:	And summer is far too short:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,	At times the sun is too hot,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;	Or often goes behind the clouds;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,	And everything that is beautiful will lose its beauty,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;	By chance or by nature's planned out course;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade	But your youth shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;	Nor lose the beauty that you possess;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,	Nor will death claim you for his own,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:	Because in my eternal verse you will live forever:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,	So long as there are people on this earth,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.	So long will this poem live on, giving you immortality.

A poem written by William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)... To a Man.
But, it's also the best poem he had ever wrote out of 154 poems.

"The poet starts the praise of his dear friend without ostentation, but he slowly builds the image of his friend into that of a perfect being. His friend is first compared to summer in the octave, but, at the start of the third quatrain (9), he is summer, and thus, he has metamorphosed into the standard by which true beauty can and should be judged. The poet's only answer to such profound joy and beauty is to ensure that his friend be forever in human memory, saved from the ultimate oblivion that accompanies death. He achieves this through his verse, believing that, as history writes itself, his friend will become one with time (or, more informally, keep up to time). The couplet reaffirms the poet's hope that as long as there is breath in mankind, his poetry too will live on, and ensure the immortality of his muse."

I found this interpration from this site.

Homosexuals happened roughly 500 years ago, and i guess Shakespeare are the first person who expressed it in a poem, so subtlely that no one know he is a .... Errmm... Gay? Bi?
Sex and Love are two different thing. He may be a normal person who fell in love with a guy.

"It's Love and got nothing to do with whether the one you fall in love with is opposite sex or same sex." - Bird

While i was in Genting, i saw two middle aged guys holding each others' hand. Then, i saw two men in KL holding each others' hand while crossing the road. Then, while i was taking LRT, i saw this Gay poem, Sonnet 18 in the monorail... Hmm... It's just the trend.