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 upmana (object compared to) in the poem?

The correct option is Summer’s Day.

In literary analysis and Indian poetics, the concept of comparison involves two primary components:
1. Upameya (the subject of comparison): The person or object that is being described or compared. In this poem, it is the beloved or the "addressee" ("thee").
2. Upamana (the object compared to): The standard or object of comparison with which the subject is compared. Here, the speaker asks, "Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s Day?" which makes the summer day the standard of comparison.

Therefore, the upmana (object of comparison) in the poem is the Summer’s Day.