True Love In Shakespeare's 'Sonnet XVIII'

Truly successful authors have the ability to convey their view of a person without actually saying it, to portray a person in a certain light simply by describing them. In the provided poem, “Sonnet XVIII” by William Shakespeare he does just this. Through his use of stylistic elements such as diction, imagery, details and figurative language, Shakespeare reveals his euphonious view of the woman that he loves more than anything in the world and will love eternally because she is eternally youthful. Shakespeare’s constant use of euphonious diction, such as “lovely” and “temperate” convey his true love for the woman of his dreams (2). He uses this diction to state that his true love is better than a “summer’s day”(1). Attention is drawn to Shakespeare’s use of pleasant language to convey how he feels when he begins to think of his true love and how much she makes him feel delighted pleasant. In addition, he speaks of how everything in life will slowly perish, and decline, but his “eternal” passion for his love will not fade and her eternal youth will never cease (9). Eternal is a strong word to use to suggest that even after death, his love will not end for his “eternal summer,”and that her

When he says, “But thy eternal summer shall not fade,” he means that her youth will never fade (9). This is important because this is just after he said that “every fair from fair sometimes declines”(7). Shakespeare is stating that even though everything in nature might lose its beauty and youth she will be eternally youthful. Another example is when he says “Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade”(11). He means that death will not claim her or her youth for his own and this shows that she is truthfully eternal. This connotation is also a euphemism to help Shakespeare keep his pleasant tone constant. These connotations used help to convey the euphonious tone of the