Shakespeares Sonnet 18 - 1392 Words

In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare shows his audience that his love will be preserved through his eternal lines of poetry by comparing his love and poetry with a summers day. Shakespeare then uses personification to emphasize these comparisons and make his theme clearer to his audience. Shakespeare also uses repetition of single words and ideas throughout the sonnet in order to stress the theme that his love and poetry are eternal, unlike other aspects of the natural world. Using the devices of metaphor, personification, repetition, and progression of tone, Shakespeare reveals his theme that the natural world is imperfect and transitory while his love is made eternal through his lines of poetry. Shakespeare uses metaphors to show one object†¦show more content†¦For instance, the word time itself is repeated three times, while the idea of time is used repetitively throughout the sonnet. For example, with the lines rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, Shakespeare suggests that just as the summer progresses and the winds shakes the buds of May, life progresses as youth fades and aging occurs. The key word in this quote is bud because the bud signifies youth, and by these buds being shaken, the idea of youth departing is shown. Shakespeare further stresses the idea of time, in his lines and summers lease hath all too short a date, Shakespeare uses the idea that life is too short in order to emphasize the fact that, unlike other things in life, his love will never end because his words will never be forgotten. Again, Shakespeare speaks of the progression of time when he mentions the summer suns gold complexion often being dimmed. Shakespeare uses this idea of di mming and death in order to show his audience once again that his love and his eternal lines of poetry will never be dimmed as the summer sun is. 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