How Does Shakespeare Use Figurative Language In Sonnet 12

In Sonnet 111, Shakespeare uses careful diction, descriptive imagery, and purposeful word play to illustrate how the speaker, corrupted by an unfortunate lifestyle, is hopeless and pitiful. As a result, the speaker gains the attention and favor of the reader.

Sonnets 60 and 64 are about the effects of time. This is a recurrent theme in Shakespeare's poems. Through the use of imagery, Shakespeare provides relatable experiences to describe the passage of time. Sonnet 60 provides three examples of the passage of time the first is waves moving towards a shore, the second is a child growing to maturity, and the third is time's effects on the beauty of youth. Sonnet 64 provides three of Shakespeare's personal experiences the first is time's effects on towers and brass, the second is the ocean and a shore, the third is the change of condition of things. Both sonnets have similarities and differences in themes, structure, and speech acts.

A sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines that rhyme in a particular pattern. William Shakespeare’s sonnets were the only non-dramatic poetry that he wrote. Shakespeare used sonnets within some of his plays, but his sonnets are best known as a series of one hundred and fifty-four poems. The series of one hundred and fifty-four poems tell a story about a young aristocrat and a mysterious mistress. Many people have analyzed and contemplated about the significance of these “lovers”. After analysis of the content of both the “young man” sonnets and the “dark lady sonnets”, it is clear that the poet, Shakespeare, has a great love for the young man and only lusts after his mistress.

In Sonnet 18, I noticed how Shakespeare used a lot of vivid imagery. This is probably to show the beauty of summer and how the beloved is even more pretty than summer itself. I believe that Sonnet

The Shakespearean sonnet depicts a speaker, who can barely close his eyes and sleep. The reader understands the scene is at night, in the bed after a long day. The tone of the poem is sorrowful. Shakespeare wants to share the reader with sleeplessness, separation, and agony that the speaker faces day and night, because of his remoteness from a special person: “For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee.” The idea of love is delivered throughout the lines using contrasts: “Presents thy shadow to my sightless view, Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night.” Here “shadow” means an image, the speaker compares seeing the image of his special person in the darkness to a jewel seen at night. The image

This essay will address how Shakespeare and Rossetti engage with the sonnet form, through Rossetti’s “A Sonnet” and Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 52”. Both poets arguably subvert the traditional Petrarchan sonnet genre, though in different ways. Rossetti’s ‘A Sonnet’ explores the sonnet as an art form rather than as a means of currency, as sonnets were seen to be at the time, and how if treated as a commodity, the value of a sonnet is diminished. Similarly, Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 52’ explores the connection between frequency and worth. However, ‘Sonnet 52’ adheres more closely to traditional sonnet form, as the prevalent theme is romance, and the idealisation of the “fair youth”. In contrast to Shakespeare’s adherence to the traditional romantic focus of sonnets, Rossetti subverts the genre by using “The Sonnet” as a metatextual device to explore his ideas around the form of a sonnet itself.

In this sonnet, Shakespeare uses metaphor to create a vivid image in the reader's mind of the passage of time, old age, and death by describing the Fall season, the end of a day, and the burning out of a flame.

One of William Shakespeare's tools from his choices of words was figurative diction since most words used to describe the narrator’s mistress were based in comparing her to other objects. For example, the poem starts with the narrator using the words “eyes”, “like”, “nothing”, and “sun”. The narrator introduces an example of a simile from the figurative choice of words since the word “like” is been used to compare her to something else. In this case he's comparing the sun’s brightness to the dull light of his mistress's eyes and the eyes are important because they are the door to the soul. Then in line 2 from Sonnet 130, the narrator says that the color of the coral outcast more “her lip’s red”. This is an example of a metaphor since the narrator

Figurative language is the use of words and expressions with a meaning that is different from its literal perception and it is clearly used in both Shakespeare’s sonnet 130 and in Ted Huges’ the thought fox. By using figurative language both poems have a clear and precise meaning and it helps the reader to understand these literary texts. The use of figurative language in these poems also helps to make them slightly more dramatic to the reader. Shakespeare’s sonnet 130 describes the physical appearance of his mistress and how she is not classically beautiful and how she leaves much to be desired.

“Sonnet CXVI,” written by William Shakespeare, is an epic attempt to describe what true love is and what true love is not. Shakespeare utilizes numerous rhetorical devices, vivid imagery, and in depth expression to show that if love is true, it is constant and does not waver in the face of challenges or obstacles (Line 3). “Sonnet CXVI” is still read today due to the fact that it gives a beautiful representation of what real love should be like. Therefore, due to its meaning and expression, Shakespeare’s “Sonnet CXVI” should still be read today.

There are many different literary devices used in the sonnet such as imagery, personification, and metaphor. The imagery was when it said, “gold complexion dimmed” which painted a visual picture in my mind. Personification was in the couplet in the very last two sentences of the sonnet, which is very explained on how it all relates together to show to solution or overall thought of the sonnet. Showing metaphor was when it said “the eye of heaven” which really means the sun. Many people would automatically infer that it is the sun, which indeed the sonnet is talking about the sun. Sonnet number 18 is a very famous poem and is well written by William Shakespeare. Since the sonnet is iconic and knowing how to do TP-CASTT was very helpful when breaking number 18 down into different parts. Trying to figure out what the overall message of any sonnet can be difficult, but if you look and think critically, all of the answers and reasoning to the sonnet are right there in front of

One can conclude by reading Shakespeare’s Sonnet 12 that the predominant motif deals with the course of time. When read aloud the reader can easily compare the pace of the sonnet and the internal rhyming to that of a ticking clock. Every line is short and steady as it progresses just as the steady ticking of a clock. In the second line, Shakespeare generates a metaphor in which he compares the life of a violet to that of one’s own life, “when I behold the violet past prime and sable curls all silvered o’er with white.” Shakespeare pursues the cycle of life in this sonnet with illustrations of nature and humankind. Just as a flower blooms and a leaf falls likewise, a human is born, reaches its potential, grows old, and at

Shakespeare’s sonnet 60 expresses the inevitable end that comes with time and uses this dark truth to express his hopefulness that his poetry will carry his beloved’s beauty and worth into the future in some way so that it may never die. This love poem is, as all sonnets are, fourteen lines. Three quatrains form these fourteen lines, and each quatrain consists of two lines. Furthermore, the last two lines that follow these quatrains are known as the couplet. This sonnet has the rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, as most Shakespearean sonnets follow. In each of the three quatrains, Shakespeare discusses a different idea. In this particular sonnet, the idea is how time continues to pass on, causing everything to die. The couplet connects these ideas to one central theme, this theme being Shakespeare’s hope for the beauty of his beloved’s immortality through his poetry’s continuation into future times.

     The sonnet, being one of the most traditional and recognized forms of poetry, has been used and altered in many time periods by writers to convey different messages to the audience. The strict constraints of the form have often been used to parallel the subject in the poem. Many times, the first three quatrains introduce the subject and build on one another, showing progression in the poem. The final couplet brings closure to the poem by bringing the main ideas together. On other occasions, the couplet makes a statement of irony or refutes the main idea with a counter statement. It leaves the reader with a last impression of what the author is trying to say.

In Sonnet 7 (“Lo, in the orient, when the gracious light..”), one out of the 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet, William Shakespeare, focuses on the burden of beauty and how human life can be compared to the passage of the sun rising and setting. Throughout the whole poem, the advice is given to the young man, to follow the sun and its direction. This sonnet is written in iambic pentameter, consists of three quatrains and ends with a couplet while following the rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. The poet 's way of using poetic and literary devices such as rhythm, alliteration, and caesuras strengthens the poem’s argument that the sun and man must coexist to live on and that the only way for the youth to ensure their