In lines two and three, Shakespeare writes to the woman "thou art fairer and more temperate: / the stormy winds shake the dear buds of May" (2-3). You can see in these two lines that the poet sees nature as harsh and unpleasant, but it contrasts with his view of woman as lovely and having gentler characteristics. After describing the qualities of nature and women, the speaker goes on to talk about the time allowed for these goods to last. The speaker believes that the “lease” which translates to “allotted time”, granted for the summer, is not enough to be compared to the eternal beauty of a woman (4)(Kastan 10). In line nine he talks about the time span of the woman's beauty, he writes “but your eternal summer will not fade” meaning that her beauty cannot be changed by time, unlike nature (9). In those few lines, the audience can see that even though a summer day may only be harsh for a short time, the woman's beauty is immutable. At the end of the poem, the audience can understand that the woman's beauty is sealed in the poem "so long lives this, and this gives life to you" (14). The next new perspective on love comes from Shakespeare's "One Hundred and One Sonnet." and Sixteen.” “Sonnet One Hundred and Sixteen” “expounds an ideal of true love as something permanent and never changing” (Kastan 17). Integrated throughout the poem are various circumstances in which this is true