Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 75

While standing outside the walls of a city in this heaven, she covers his eyes, just as Virgil does to Dante when faced with Medusa outside Dis, the capital of hell.

He uses poetic devices including alliteration and metaphor when he talks about her shine he is talking about the woman’s beauty. In the beginning he notices her beauty and then it forms into a relationship. Toward the end it saddens when he expresses aging as a dark process, but it lightens again as he says he accepts it as a beautiful process. This means that even though she has aged he still loves her and believes she is still beautiful. This poem starts with the author noticing the woman's beauty and the forming a relationship, getting married, and finally even through age stating her beauty. This poem is very comparable to “Love is More Thicker Than Forget” as both of their meanings can relate to love as a force that can last through anything even old age and

One example of metaphor is the author uses the title "Quilt of a Country." The author describes that America is a nation of people from various different ethnic backgrounds and these people interact. The author uses a metaphor to describe America as a quilt. The author compares the structure to a quilt, in the sense that a quilt is made up of squares of different patterns and colors, much like this country is made up of people of different races, religions,

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” (“Sonnet 18”) is one of Shakespeare’s most famous poems. It is the model English, or Shakespearean sonnet: it contains three quatrains and a finishing couplet.. The poem follows the traditional English sonnet form by having the octet introduce an idea or set up the poem, and the sestet beginning with a volta, or turn in perspective. In the octet of Sonnet 18, Shakespeare poses the question “Shall I compare the to a summer’s day” and basically begins to describe all the bad qualities of summer. He says it’s too windy, too short, too hot, and too cloudy. Eventually fall is going to come and take away all the beauty because of the changes nature brings. In the sestet, however, his tone changes as he begins to talk about his beloved’s “eternal summer” (Shakespeare line 9). This is where the turn takes place in the poem. Unlike the summer, their beauty will never fade. Not even death can stop their beauty for, according to Shakespeare, as long as people can read this poem, his lover’s beauty will continue to live. Shakespeare believes that his art is more powerful than any season and that in it beauty can be permanent.

When they are running around and wallowing in the sunlight they say, “oh, it’s much better than the sun lamps isn’t it?... Much, much better!” (3) The children have begun to climb out of the cave, since earlier they were making fun of Margo for liking the sun but now they have started to see the sun. Their love and understanding of the sun is growing to match Margo’s.

Tom and Lily are newlyweds, and on their honeymoon, their primary goal is simply to find sunlight. After the war, sunlight was rare and the sky was consistently gray. Tom said, “Going to find a bit of sun and have our honeymoon in it”(6). Lily even wears a yellow wedding dress in hopes of a life full of sunlight and blessings. In joyous celebration, the hopeful couple begins their journey by heading south eagerly anticipating a glimpse of sunlight and

Beach Burial sets the mood of a sad and soft sombre as the opening of the poem quotes

He uses flattery to engage her in conversation regarding something about which she is passionate. She gets involved in describing the feeling with which she tends to her flowers and begins to feel like someone in whom another man might be interested. She has gone so long with no real interest from her husband and here is this man who seems genuinely interested in what she does. He feigns an interest in the flowers and even convinces her that he has a customer who would love to be able to grow chrysanthemums as spectacular as hers. She loses herself in her description of how to care for these flowers and, as a reader, one can sense the substitution these flowers represent for the children that she does not have in her life.

Many similes and metaphors are used to enforce the descriptions of the sun. One example of a simile is when Margot said “ It’s like a penny,” This simile helps describe the sun. Although this claim is strong, symbolism is used throughout the story many times. One example is how the author uses symbolism to describe how jealous the kids are. Although metaphors and similes are a part of the story, symbolism is more

To support I present the following quotes “Mother, the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself.” and “ Hester smiled to perceive, did actually catch the sunshine, and stood laughing in the midst of it, all brightened

In the forest, Pearl asks Hester for the sunshine. She is symbolically asking for the truth. Pearl is constantly searching for the truth about Hester and Dimmesdale’s sin. Pearl notices that the sunlight doesn’t like Hester either, yet the sunlight seems to be absorbed by Pearl. “Mother the sunshine does not love

A blooming flower marks more than just the commencement of spring. I decided to visually perceive a blooming flower within my slides as it portrays the importance of Romeo and Juliet's love. In Act 2, Scene 2 Juliet verbalizes to Romeo, “This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.” The flower bud describes the commencement of their love. The blooming flower represents their growing love. In the scene where the symbol is utilized, Juliet tells Romeo that this is only the beginning of their relationship and that she cannot promise until she is aware that they genuinely love each other. At the end of the passage, Juliet wishes that they will become a resplendent flower, by having a true relationship. This picture is paramount to me as throughout life all relationships start small, however, increase with time. Romeo and Juliet's love was like a flower, growing through the sidewalk cracks and no matter how many times others stepped over it, they kept on growing until the end.

In the second stanza, the poem compares his love to a plant that does not bloom. The flowers are hidden deep within the plant. The text is expressing that while most would not appreciate a flower that does not bloom, the love described here goes far beyond that of anyone else’s. Inner beauty is admired. The narrator is not ashamed of his love. Yet, he feels as though he cannot compare her to anything of this world. He is entirely consumed by the spirit within her.

The figure of the sun as a "weakening eye" is a personification, a trope resonating off Romantic associations such as Wordsworth's "eye of heaven" for the sun in "Resolution and Independence". It establishes the poem's time as at the closing of a particular day at the end of a seasonal year. Whether the Romantic allusion to visionary powers and their ebbing is noted or not, it is a suggestive adjective for a time when seeing is becoming more difficult due to a reduction of light. As the poem moves further away from visual observation to emotional coloration, it replaces concrete detail with pathetic fallacy, a rhetorical device by which we, in Santayana's words "dye the world our own color" (Santayana, 159).

Her eyes are brighter than the lamps of heaven (p.35) and her looks can clear the darkened sky. (p.35) Her eyes make “the mantle of the richest night, / The moon, the planets, and the meteors, light.” (p.53)