Sonnet 118 Figurative Language

When you love someone you respect, appreciate, and do everything in your power not to hurt them. There is a way of expressing your love to someone, through a sonnet. A sonnet is a fourteen line poem using a formal rhyme scheme. William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor widely recognized. One of his most famous works is the 154 Sonnets. These sonnets are about passage of time, love, beauty, and mortality. In the sonnets his view of love is different. In sonnet 118 he is talking about his waywardness and unfaithfulness. William Shakespeare’s view of love in sonnet 118 is uncontrollable. He explains that love is something you cannot control.

William Shakespeare’s sonnet 118 has a message and meaning, like every other
The figure of speech he used is the metaphor. A metaphor is a comparison that does not use “like” or “as”. William Shakespeare uses a metaphor in sonnet 118 in line 5, “Even so, being full of your ne’er-cloying sweetness.” He is comparing his love with the love of the youth. The poet and the youth seek new acquaintances but will never get sick of the sweetness of their love. He also compares his new lover to “eager compounds” in line 2. The metaphors help the reader view the meaning and message of the sonnet through a different perspective. Shakespeare, again, helps give the meaning a message of the sonnet through a distinct view and hearing.

In sonnet 118, William Shakespeare uses symbolism to help understand his view of love. The author uses rhyme schemes and various phrases as symbols to help the reader gain interest and to add to the appeal to the reader. The phrases “bitter sauces” and “drugs” in line 6 and 14 refer to his lovers. They represent the women he had affairs with. The women are bitter drugs to his relationship with his sweet wife. Even though he loves her sweetness, he decided to switch to a newer