ggart giving Death a human quality. In the last line of this sonnet, the poem itself is being compared to a living thing. Although all the lines just mentioned are examples of personification, they are all metaphors as well. Lines 7 and 13 have both literal meanings. These two lines are self-explanatory and mean what they say. The remaining lines 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 12 and 13 are all metaphors because throughout those lines, the beloved’s beauty is being compared to the summer. Iambic Pentameter is essentially the meter or the basic rhythm of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Love is an intangible thing, and emotion, it can have no real definition, because it can mean so many things depending on the situation. I enjoyed this sonnet because Shakespeare had the ability to show his poetic skills in appropriating metaphors and conceits in clever ways, so that the poem becomes, not just a tribute to the beloved but also a testament to his great skill as a poet. ...
