The transience and beauty of nature are reflected in the line “Summer’s honey breath,” illustrating that nature is what keeps “Summer” alive. However, the
“wrackful siege of battering days” is what kills this beauty. Time moving forward and the progression of “battering days,” demolishes “summer’s honey breath.” There is a particular imagery used throughout the quatrain, and it is the imagery of battle and war with the author’s use of the phrases “battering days,” “wrackful siege,” “gates of steel,” and “impregnable.” The combination of these words and expressions has a connotation of destruction, similar to a battle. A siege surrounds an area, imprisoning it, cutting off its essential supplies - with the aim to either kill or compel those …show more content…
Writing about his love and loving someone, whilst eliciting the beauty of nature in “black ink” allows “my love” to “shine bright” to the reader for eternity. He confirms that his readers will experience this love and beauty through his poems and verse. He boasts himself by drawing attention to the “miracle” of his verse which will continually convey the experiences of ardor, desire, lust, and splendor – even after time takes his lover’s life, his own life or even wrecks the beautiful blooms in the passing seasons. The phrase “black ink” is accentuated because it is the solution to the problem - the most important element of the sonnet. He concludes that his love will survive in ink and the spoken word amongst his audience and his attempts will overcome mortality with his immortal writing. This ending clearly illustrates self-affirmation, as the author gradually
Yara 5 built the intensity and demonstrated the power of the progression of time, and eventually, he provided a solution that was right there in front of the reader. He …show more content…
The message may, in fact, be an ode to his lover, perhaps hinting to a disparity in age and that even this disparity cannot divide or break lovers from one another.
In a literal sense, the speaker is exhibiting grief over the death of the flowers and summer’s beauty with the passing of time and seasons, however, he is also ultimately expressing sorrow and sadness that death is inevitable and the love and memories he shared with his partner will be lost in his use of the phrase “sad mortality.” “O'ersways their power” emphasizes that this hideous and ugly mortality has greater power than anything in comparison. In spite of all of this, the poet insists that the immense destruction of time does not overcome the power of the poet’s verse because time cannot decay his experiences and ideas. The poet may re-live these experiences through reading verses and writing them. Furthermore, the audience may indirectly be connected, feel love and understand beauty even after the poet is dead because these feelings will continue to live – engraved in ink in his undying pages.
In conclusion, Shakespeare has beautifully expressed the power of time over
“wrackful siege of battering days” is what kills this beauty. Time moving forward and the progression of “battering days,” demolishes “summer’s honey breath.” There is a particular imagery used throughout the quatrain, and it is the imagery of battle and war with the author’s use of the phrases “battering days,” “wrackful siege,” “gates of steel,” and “impregnable.” The combination of these words and expressions has a connotation of destruction, similar to a battle. A siege surrounds an area, imprisoning it, cutting off its essential supplies - with the aim to either kill or compel those …show more content…
Writing about his love and loving someone, whilst eliciting the beauty of nature in “black ink” allows “my love” to “shine bright” to the reader for eternity. He confirms that his readers will experience this love and beauty through his poems and verse. He boasts himself by drawing attention to the “miracle” of his verse which will continually convey the experiences of ardor, desire, lust, and splendor – even after time takes his lover’s life, his own life or even wrecks the beautiful blooms in the passing seasons. The phrase “black ink” is accentuated because it is the solution to the problem - the most important element of the sonnet. He concludes that his love will survive in ink and the spoken word amongst his audience and his attempts will overcome mortality with his immortal writing. This ending clearly illustrates self-affirmation, as the author gradually
Yara 5 built the intensity and demonstrated the power of the progression of time, and eventually, he provided a solution that was right there in front of the reader. He …show more content…
The message may, in fact, be an ode to his lover, perhaps hinting to a disparity in age and that even this disparity cannot divide or break lovers from one another.
In a literal sense, the speaker is exhibiting grief over the death of the flowers and summer’s beauty with the passing of time and seasons, however, he is also ultimately expressing sorrow and sadness that death is inevitable and the love and memories he shared with his partner will be lost in his use of the phrase “sad mortality.” “O'ersways their power” emphasizes that this hideous and ugly mortality has greater power than anything in comparison. In spite of all of this, the poet insists that the immense destruction of time does not overcome the power of the poet’s verse because time cannot decay his experiences and ideas. The poet may re-live these experiences through reading verses and writing them. Furthermore, the audience may indirectly be connected, feel love and understand beauty even after the poet is dead because these feelings will continue to live – engraved in ink in his undying pages.
In conclusion, Shakespeare has beautifully expressed the power of time over