Read the following stanza and answer the questions that follow:
Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s Day
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May’ And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d.

What is upmeya (object compared) in the poem?

The correct option is Addressee.

Explanation:
In Indian poetics (Alankara Shastra), upameya (often spelled upmeya) refers to the subject of comparison—the primary object or person that is being described or compared to something else. On the other hand, the upamana is the standard of comparison—the object or concept with which the subject is compared.

In the opening line of the stanza, "Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s Day", the poet (William Shakespeare, in Sonnet 18) is addressing a beloved person (the addressee or "thee").
Here, the two elements of the comparison are:
1. The Addressee ("thee"): The person being compared (the subject). Therefore, the addressee is the upameya.
2. A Summer’s Day: The object to which the addressee is compared (the standard of comparison). Therefore, a summer's day is the upamana.

Since the question asks for the upameya (the object/person being compared), the correct answer is the Addressee.