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  1. Following poetic devices/figures of speech have been used in Sonnet 106: Metaphor: It is a literary device that is used to make a direct comparison between two things without the use of as or like. In the poem, wasted time refers to history, wights refer to people, beauty refers to beautiful people,Read more

    Following poetic devices/figures of speech have been used in Sonnet 106:

    1. Metaphor: It is a literary device that is used to make a direct comparison between two things without the use of as or like. In the poem, wasted time refers to history, wights refer to people, beauty refers to beautiful people, antique pen refers to the old poets.
    2. Personification: It refers to the attribution of human characteristics to non-human things and living beings. e.g. antique pen refers to the old poets, beauty refers to human beings.
    3. Enjambment: It is the continuing a line after the line breaks. In the poem, the first sentence continues to several line.
    4. Alliteration: It is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more neighbouring words or syllables. e.g.beauty making beautiful”, “ladies dead and lovely knights”, “praises are but prophesies”  “for wwhich now”.

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  1. Sonnet 106 is a poem about beauty and addressed to the beloved of speaker. According to the speaker, the chronicles of old times had the mention of perfect beauty which is now possessed by his beloved. However no one has the skills to properly capture it. Even in the time of speaker, the people canRead more

    Sonnet 106 is a poem about beauty and addressed to the beloved of speaker. According to the speaker, the chronicles of old times had the mention of perfect beauty which is now possessed by his beloved. However no one has the skills to properly capture it. Even in the time of speaker, the people can wonder by seeing poet’s beloved. However they are not capable of describe it in their writing because her beauty can never be put in the words.

    In the poem, we find another important theme which is immorality of the beauty. We find that the poet has idealised the concept of beauty. According to him, the old poets did not have someone as beautiful as poet’s beloved is. Hence they only imagined it. Now that poet’s beloved is in the world, the people are still not capable of capturing it in their writings. Hence beauty is immortal.

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