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.

Which of the following statements rightly shows the relationship of upameya with upamana in the poem:

The correct option is: Upameya is superior to upamana.

To understand why this is correct, we can analyze the relationship between the two key terms in poetic comparison:
1. Upameya: The subject being described or compared (in this poem, the beloved, referred to as "thee").
2. Upamana: The standard of comparison, or the object to which the subject is compared (in this poem, "a Summer’s Day").

In the stanza, the poet begins by posing a comparison: "Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s Day?" and immediately follows it by stating that the beloved is superior: "Thou art more lovely and more temperate."

The poet then lists the imperfections of the summer day (the upamana) to emphasize why the beloved (the upameya) is better:
- Summer is turbulent and destructive: "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May."
- Summer is too brief: "summer’s lease hath all too short a date."
- Summer can be excessively hot: "Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines."
- Summer's beauty is inconsistent and easily obscured: "often is his gold complexion dimm’d."

Since the beloved possesses beauty that is more constant, mild, and lasting than the flawed, fleeting summer, the poet demonstrates that the subject being compared is far better than the object it is compared to. Thus, the upameya is superior to upamana.