Metaphor In Sonnet 73

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Love can be a tricky thing. Love can be the begging to something new, something beautiful. While, Love can also be a dangerous and deserving thing. Love is a feeling many will feel whether for someone or something. Yet, loving someone can truly show not only who someone is as a person but, can show things about yourself you never knew. Thing you wish you never knew. Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 137” shows the dirt and ugly and immoral side your heart can obtain when love is blinding you.

The lover is described as "more temperate" in line 2 and therefore less prone to vary between extremes.

In Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 46” the speaker reveals his view between physical love and emotional love. The poem dramatizes the conflict between the love of appearance versus the love of the inward of a person. The struggle becomes evident in the first line, “mine eye and heart are at mental war” the eye representing lust and infatuation while the heart is without physical lust and is true love. The personification helps illustrate Shakespeare’s offbeat view between the eye and heart, and how to perceive the person whom he loves. Shakespeare further uses the eye calling it “the defendant” pushing the poem to illustrate a traditional courtroom showcasing fully the opposing forces.

To some death is the end, but in the end, it is also the beginning. Shakespeare wrote many Sonnets about life, death, and love. Shakespeare's 71st Sonnet is one such Sonnet that focuses on these traits. In “Sonnet 71”, Shakespeare wrote of a man passing and his loved ones mourning him. In this poem, death is not an end, but instead a release, Shakespeare conveys this through emotional tone, the theme, and strange wording.

When first thought about, love and death seem like two completely different concepts. Death is universally seen as an end to life on Earth which is hard for people to fathom. However, love is seen as an indefinite journey even after death has come to it. The poems discussed in this essay explore those concepts and find similarities between two ideas that seem as different as two things could be. In William Butler Yeats’s “When You Are Old,” and José Emilio Pacheco’s “Ashes,” the physical sense of death and love are explored. And in Shakespeare’s “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”and John Donne’s “Death be Not Proud,” the metaphysical understanding of the two are analyzed. These poems show that death is an end and love can die, but also,

William Shakespeare was a very well known writer in the British literary community and his pieces are still read and enjoyed today. Shakespeare is also known to have written a collection of poems which are sonnets. This essay will consist of a close reading to William Shakespeare’s sonnet 73 which deals with the theme of life, death and aging. The sonnet constructs a complex idea that the themes of life and death can be connected together.

Throughout history, humanity has been plagued by a knowledge of its own mortality. Both “Sonnet to Death” by Heath Bailey and “Sonnet 73” by William Shakespeare explore the concept of death and illustrate its effects differently. The poems both have a somewhat optimistic approach, “Sonnet to death” portraying the grief death brings as insignificant in contrast to the happiness life yields through personification and optimistic tone, while “Sonnet 73” uses metaphor and imagery to portray the inevitability and tragedy of death, and to convey the idea that this inevitably and tragedy can make ones appreciation of life greater. Baily’s “Sonnet to Death” begins with a somewhat bleak tone, describing a “cold death who lays an icy hand on all/

“Sonnet 73” talks about how there are only a yellow leaves hanging on the branches. Which I think symbolizes when you are at time in your life when you still have time but you can see that it is the end of your life is near. I really like this poem because it talks about imposing death, when no one really wants to talk about death. Why would anyone want to talk about leaving everything you know, if you think about it there are so many things that we can control in our life, but death is not one of them. Being totally helpless to fate is a really scary concept. Next the poem moves into talking about the sun set and how the day moves into night. In this sonnet Shakespeare really focuses on imagery in nature to illustrate his point about how everything changes, nature is a really

In Shakespeare’s sonnet 116 he realistically describes love in more of a romantic way, but still conserves the realism of love lasting through rough times. In this sonnet personification is used to describe how as death approaches, good looks fade, but if two people's love is true, then their deep affection will not end because of this: “Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks / Within his bending sickle's compass come” (lines 9-10). The personification of love and time brings forth the idea of them physically stealing a loved one’s outer beauty; however, if two people are truly in love, the loss of one’s beauty should not matter as described later in sonnet 116 and in the tone. The tone of determination is used to describe how if two people have a strong enough bond, their love should last through the hard times in life: “Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds, / Or bends with the remover to remove” (lines 2-4). The affection between two people should not be changed or taken away, if their love does change, then they did not have determination to love in the first place. Both of these sonnets show great representations of

In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 45 the author expresses the idea that love brings forth cyclical emotions. A constant stalemate between the lover’s emotions and his well-being, a war fought on two fronts. The indescribable feeling of happiness being with that whom he loves is soon followed by an ongoing barrage of sadness of parting paths with his beloved. Her absence causing emotions to temper with his natural order, swaying his well-being back and forth from healthy to ill by depression. The author is able to further explain this theme by the use of literary conceit and rhetorical devices.

In "Sonnet 73", the speaker uses a series of metaphors to characterize what he perceives to be the nature of his old age. This poem is not simply a procession of interchangeable metaphors; it is the story of the speaker slowly coming to grips with the finality of his age and his impermanence in time.

Shakespeare examines love in two different ways in Sonnets 116 and 130. In the first, love is treated in its most ideal form as an uncompromising force (indeed, as the greatest force in the universe); in the latter sonnet, Shakespeare treats love from a more practical aspect: it is viewed simply and realistically without ornament. Yet both sonnets are justifiable in and of themselves, for neither misrepresents love or speaks of it slightingly. Indeed, Shakespeare illustrates two qualities of love in the two sonnets: its potential and its objectivity. This paper will compare and contrast the two sonnets by Shakespeare and show how they represent two different attitudes to love.

William Shakespeare is a famous playwright and poet whose pieces are still well known in the modern world. Some of these well known pieces are his sonnets written about love. “Sonnet 18” and “Sonnet 130” are examples of these love poems. These sonnets convey Shakespeare’s love in different ways. “Sonnet 18” expresses superiority over another subject, and “Sonnet 130” expresses uniqueness. Although the attitudes of “Sonnet 18” and “Sonnet 130” are different, Shakespeare uses comparisons, exaggerations, and vivid words to portray the message of love in both sonnets.

Emily Dickinson once said, “Forever is composed of nows.” Love in the renaissance era was passionate but fleeting- always had an obstacle, because marriage was commonly not for love. Love Flings and the modern “crush” happened more often rather than not. As a result, love sonnets were prevalent due to infatuations or heartaches. One of the most routine thematic ideas used in these sonnets was the theme of carpe diem, to seize the day. William Shakespeares, “Carpe Diem,” as well as Andrew Marvells, “To His Coy Mistress,” convey the fleeting romance in the renaissance era using traditional dramatic monologues in order to portray the purpose of carpe diem as a resolution in such dilemmas as well as motto towards life itself.