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A 3 page essay that analyzes these two sonnets. William Shakespeare is universally acknowledged as one of the greatest masters of the English language who ever lived. Examination of two of his sonnets, Sonnets 73 and 130, demonstrates this expertise in regards to Shakespeare's use of metaphor, alliteration, enjambment and imagery. No additional sources cited.
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metaphor, alliteration, enjambment and imagery. In Sonnet 73, Shakespeare employs metaphors that build on each other in the readers understanding, as each progressively takes the meaning of the poem
closer to its main topic, i.e., the impending mortality of the narrator. It begins with describing autumn, implying that the speaker is past middle age and then moves on to
describe twilight and finally a dying fire, with each metaphor indicating a little more emphatically than the last the finality and certainty of narrators morality due to his age.
Similarly, but to a far different purposes, Shakespeare also piles up metaphors in Sonnet 130. This series of metaphors all refers to the standard metaphors that typically occur in love
poetry. The first line is as if the narrator is responding to a previous remark in which someone compared his mistress eyes, in brilliance, to the sun and Shakespeare replies,
"My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun" (Sonnet 130, line 1). He goes on to indicate that none of the standard clich?s of romance apply to her, her lips
are not redder than coral; her breasts are not whiter than snow, etc. The poets intent is humor, a satirical jab at images that were clich?s even in Shakespeares time,
and Shakespeares use of metaphor achieves his purpose very well, particularly in the lines that refer to comparing a ladys breath to perfume and Shakespeare indicates that he prefers the
smell of perfume to the "breath that from my mistress reeks" (Sonnet 130, line 8). In each sonnet, Shakespeare uses additional poetic devices to underscore the mood and purpose of
each poem. Alliteration aids in establishing the somber mood of Sonnet 73, as the repeated use of /s/ in lines 3, 4, 5, and elsewhere enhances and substantiates the
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