You are cuter and gentler.
The gale does shake the lovely buds of May,
B: The lease in summer is too short.
Quatrains Ⅱ:
C: Sometimes the light in the eye of the sky is too hot.
D: His golden skin often becomes dull;
C: And every market sometimes declines.
D: Accidental or natural changes are not pruned.
Quatrains Ⅲ:
But winter will not disappear,
Nor will you lose the beauty you know;
Death will not boast that you wander in his shadow,
When you grow up in eternal poetry.
Couplets:
G: As long as human beings can breathe and see,
This will last forever, and this will give you life. [ 1]
In this short sonnet, Shakespeare flexibly and skillfully uses a variety of rhetorical devices, which adds icing on the cake to express the theme and embodies the linguistic beauty of Shakespeare's poems. The rhetorical devices used in poetry are counted one by one, such as simile, metaphor, personification, contradiction modification and so on. , and not less than ten kinds.
The use of similes and rhetorical questions. The first sentence in the poem "Can I compare you to summer?" Use similes and rhetorical questions. Simile is to clearly compare seemingly different things and find out their similarities. The similarity between summer and "you" is that both are the embodiment of beauty. This sentence is also a rhetorical question, that is, it is a question in form, but there is no need to answer it, because the answer itself is very clear.
The use of metaphor and personification. Metaphor is a vague comparison of seemingly different things. For example, in the fourth line, the word "duration" used in summer is too short, which means that summer is compared to a house, which is rented from nature, so the use period is limited; It also implies that the duration of youth and beauty is limited. Personification is to present a thing, an object, or an idea as a character.
The use of puns and hyperbole. Pun is a word game, which refers to the different meanings or grammatical functions of words with similar pronunciation or roots. There are two kinds of puns in English, one is to use the different meanings of the same word; The second is to use the different grammatical functions of the same word. The pun used in this poem belongs to the former case. In the seventh line, "all delicate things in the world will wither, limited to chance or nature", and the two "delicate things" here have different meanings. The first meaning is "beautiful person or thing", and the second meaning is "beauty itself", so this is
Puns were used. Exaggeration is an exaggeration, usually for emphasis. Exaggeration is also used many times in this poem, such as the word "eternity" in the ninth line. According to the laws of nature, every beautiful thing will gradually lose its beauty, so how can the beauty of people in poetry last forever? "We won't wander in the shadow of death", everyone will die sooner or later, and we can't live forever, so how can the people in the poem not be bound by this natural law?
In addition to the above rhetorical devices, this poem also uses inverted sentences, contradictory sentences and other devices.