In modern clock times, youth and beauty is an image seen everywhere. For example, a Versace billboard, cartridge clip ad, TV commercial, all of which displays images of beauteous people. However, what happens when this beauty fades? Shakespeare in his twelfth sonnet talks about his father and fading beauty. The place of this poem is to encourage a young man to not lose his beauty to the ravages of time. In order to do this, maven must reproduce so beauty will live. In the first quatrain, Shakespeare begins his meditation on the process of decay. He begins the poem with I, which signals that Shakespeare will later give his own experience and account. The first object presented in this sonnet is a clock, which is to come down the mood of the poem. The imagery presented by the first line is that Shakespeare is serious sitting there watching the clock and counting the proceedings pass by. Although his state of mind may be idle, time does not stand still for him. As we read on, you learn that the first line is significant because it creates a bridge to the succeeding(a) line, the brave solar day sunk in hideous darkness. Again, we need to place emphasis on Shakespeares choice of phraseing. Shakespeare uses the word sunk in order to illustrate how the dark night engulfs the day.
What Shakespeare is doing is using the words hideous night and sunk to salmagundi a catalogue of images pertaining to decay and passing time. The brave day sinks deeper and deeper as time on the clock marches on. fourth dimension is destruction. When I behold violet past prime (L.3), Shakespeare is once more adding to his catalogue. The idea Shakespeare tries to convey is that death takes everything. The violet was once beautiful and strong but as time passes;...
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