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What is the figure of speech in "Sonnet 18"?

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Posted by single on Sunday September 13, 2009 at 7:27 AM and tagged with figure of speech, literature.

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    As indicated from the opening line, the primary figure of speech is a metaphoric comparison between the speaker's love interest to a summer day.  This is explored throughout the sonnet, such as in lines 2 and 3 ("Thou art more lovely and more temperate:/ Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.")  The comparative language can also be seen in line 9, when the speaker suggests that "But thy eternal summer shall not fade."  In this comparison, the love interest of the speaker is directly linked to the natural patterns found in late Spring/ Summer, helping to illuminate both the natural sense of beauty found in the world as well as the individual sense of devotion and love shared between both speaker and love interest.

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    Posted by akannan on Sunday September 13, 2009 at 11:22 AM