Sonnets Group
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renelane Teacher
High School - 11th GradePosted by renelane on Monday October 22, 2007 at 3:07 AMSonnet 18 is loaded with metaphor! It compares "thee" to many things. An example of metaphor is:
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate:" The metaphor would be comparing a person to a perfect summer's day. Sunny, bright, and warm, the perfect temperature.
An example of imagery:
"Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines / And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;" meaning that the bright, direct sunlight can be intense, and when it clouds over, too chilly.
The lyric poem consists of four stanzas.
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sagetrieb Teacher
DoctoratePosted by sagetrieb on Monday October 22, 2007 at 5:08 AMAlthough "stanza" is a term sometimes used in referring to the structure of a sonnet, more strictly speaking the sonnet is a poem composed of 14 lines, consisting of 3 quatrians (groups of 4 lines united by a rhyme scheme and usually a train of thought or dominant metaphor), followed by a rhyming couplet, which sums up or comments on the rest of the poem. Note how tidily the couplet here reflects on the entire poem: "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,/ So long lives this, and this give life the thee" (13-14). The "this" refers to the sonnet, and "life" means a figurative "life" in that his lover will always be remembered because he put his feelings for her into words. Each quatrain has a final mark of punctuation: first a semi colon, then a colon, then a period. The first quatrain revolves around the simile of her beauty and nature, the second quatrain evokes the metaphor of the sun as sometimes damaging what is beautiful in nature, the third quatrain resolves this problem, beginning with the word "but," bringing back the metaphor of her beauty as an "eternal summer."
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annabelmountford Student
College - SeniorPosted by annabelmountford on Thursday March 6, 2008 at 4:17 AMThe 'Summer's day' is a perfect example, Shakespeare is using the imagery of a summer's day (beautiful, natural...etc.) but discarding the idea, using the metaphor to state that it would be rediculous to try and compare the recipients beauty to anything as it is indescribable. The idea is for the audience to imagine a beautiful summer's day then try to think of anything more beautiful, and if they can that is the beauty of the recipient.
Imagry and metaphors are prehaps Shakespeares most important features, he uses these to help the audience undestand undescribable emotions, making spiritual earthly.
Annabel Mountford
Hampshire, England