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Sonnet 18 Figurative Language
Keeping love a reality is never simple. Conceivable that living will ultimately be destroyed, but does love? Moments in time pass and so do days. It is in "Sonnet 18", that we see an ultimation to the concept that love that is limited. He has a special way of keeping passion a reality in "Sonnet 18", and he uses many different expertise to show how passion is more remarkable and endless than a summer's day.

The first expertise he uses to show endless love is to ask many questions like "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" Is love as radiant and exquisite as a summer's day? These questions are answered in the second line with "Thou art more lovely and more temperate." This shows that the individual the narrator is appreciative is more lovely, quiet and empathetic than a summer's day. The summer is important to the individual being respected, and the
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Summer days are restricted; they are limited and will end. During the summer the sun is shining hot right above us all. He uses the expertise of an allegory in line five and six: "Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, / and often is his gold complexion dimmed." This reference of a person potential to creation shows he use of allegory as a way of characterization. It generates the impression that everything in the summer's solstice ultimately loses its attractiveness and dies. As wonderful as this glorious radiance may feel and as deep as we desire to be blessed. The narrator's thinks that the attractiveness of the individual he respects is above the sheltered summer day. All the equality of the summer becomes gloomy and bleak, identical to what will be at the end of the

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