How is love presented in sonnet 18?
in sonnet 18 William Shakespeare shows so many variations of language to describe love within the hundreds of his sonnets. Love is presented by Shakespeare using Hyperboles to describe a certain mysterious woman or a young nobleman in which the speaker loves very much. In the quote “Shall i compare compare the to a summers day? Thou art more lovely and temperate” , he is trying to present a woman or man as more beautiful than a summers day. There is a rhyming scheme of a,b,a,b,c,d,c,d,e,f,e,f,g,g. Each of the letters that is representing a rhyming couplet and some of them are “Day” and “May” or “Fade” and “Shade”. I think that each word has to mean something like day and may are liked because they both are representing a date in time and the words fade and shade both kind of represent darkness.
Shakespeare also used techniques such as metaphors , similes and onomatepia and some of these aren’t used in all of them but i have found evidence of them in sonnet 18. I have found things to state that Shakespeare was talking about a male because he repeated ‘he’ , ‘his’ and ‘him’.
December 17, 2014 at 10:35 am
Charlie, you clearly have much to say about the way Shakespeare portrays love in this poem.
I think you need to use the essay structure I have provided in order for you to organise your ideas more effectively.
1) Try to discuss one idea per paragraph. You could say lots about the way Shakespeare uses hyperbole, so give the feature a whole paragraph to itself.
2) Include an introduction and conclusion to your essay.
3) Analyse Shakespeare’s use of the language feature in relation to what it adds to our understanding of love.