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Shakespeare's Use Of Foil In Sonnet 14
Shakespeare uses Foil in Sonnet 14 to help support the argument of the man that the women is too self-centered about herself. The man cannot tell the future from the stars, despite his knowledge in astronomy. However, the man can see a future in the woman's eyes, "By oft predict that I in heaven find/But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive," (In 9-10). He is foreshadowing that he wants her to have a baby, and to stop focusing on herself. To persuade her, the man gives a preposition, "As truth and beauty shall together thrive/If from thy self, to store thou wouldst convert,"(In 11-12). The man is attempting to entice the woman into having a baby by telling her that her beauty and truth will live on forever. The man is indirectly telling
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