Poems for Literary Critism

Text of Sonnet:
  From fairest creatures we desire increase,
  That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
  But as the riper should by time decease,
  His tender heir might bear his memory;
  But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
  Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
  Making a famine where abundance lies,
  Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
  Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament
  And only herald to the gaudy spring,
  Within thine own bud buriest thy content,
  And, tender churl, mak'st waste in niggarding.
  Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
  To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.

Metaphor:
- Lines 1, 6, 9 describe beauty using agricultural imagery.
Anastrophe:
- The inversion of normal word order found in line 3.
Internal Rhyme:
- Present in line 4 with the use of "bear" and "memory."
Assonance:
- Occurs in lines 5-6, 12 with vowel sounds clashing.
Paradox:
- Line 7 reflects contradiction about beauty and selfishness.
Alliteration:
- Found in lines 8 and 11 with the repetition of initial sounds.
Personification:
- Line 10 assigns human qualities to "the world".

First Quatrain:
- Discusses humanity's desire for beauty to reproduce (keeping beauty alive even after death).
Second Quatrain:
- Critiques the subject's vanity and refusal to share beauty through offspring, leading to a metaphorical famine of beauty.
Third Quatrain:
- Emphasis on the urgency for the young man to recognize the dangers of his self-obsession and encourages him to provide for future generations.
Conclusion:
- A plea for procreation and a reflection on the selfish waste of beauty when not passed on to offspring.

Text of Sonnet:
  Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
  Now is the time that face should form another,
  Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,
  Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.
  For where is she so fair whose uneared womb
  Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
  Or who is he so fond will be the tomb
  Of his self-love, to stop posterity?
  Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
  Calls back the lovely April of her prime;
  So thou through windows of thine age shalt see,
  Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time.
  But if thou live remembered not to be,
  Die single, and thine image dies with thee.

Anastrophe:
- Seen in lines 3 and 13 where normal structure is inverted.
Anthropomorphism:
- Lines 5-6 attributing human traits to nature's processes.
Imagery:
- Vivid depictions in lines 5-6.
Metaphor:
- Describing the womb as farmland in line 6.
Internal Rhyme:
- Check line 9 for rhyming within the line.

First Quatrain:
- Calls the young man to see his own beauty and importance in creating new life.
Second Quatrain:
- Questions whether a woman beautiful enough could reject him, utilizing farming imagery to emphasize potential.
Third Quatrain:
- Highlights the legacy of beauty and how it will fade without procreation; the need for eye-to-eye connection expressed.
Conclusion:
- A stark reminder of mortality and the eventual loss of beauty if he remains childless.

Text of Sonnet:
  Devouring time, blunt thou the lion's paws
  And make the earth devour her own sweet brood,
  Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws
  And burn the long-liv'd phoenix in her blood,
  Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleet'st,
  And do what e'er thou wilt, swift-footed time,
  To the wide world and all her fading sweets:

Apostrophe:
- Directly addressing time as a living entity.
Anastrophe:
- Found in lines 1, 9, 11 where standard phrasing is altered.
Assonance:
- Abundant in line 3 with similar vowel sounds.
Allusion:
- In line 4 referencing mythology with the phoenix.
Alliteration:
- Present in line 7 with repetition of the same initial consonant sound.
Metaphor:
- Line 10 invokes the idea of beauty as a pattern or template.

First Quatrain:
- Invokes images of powerful creatures being weakened by time.
Second Quatrain:
- Accepts time's destructive nature while pleading for youth’s beauty to be spared.
Couplet:
- Epitomizes the poet's desire to immortalize his love through poetry to defy time's decay.

Text of Sonnet:
  A woman’s face with Nature’s own hand painted
  Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion;
  A woman’s gentle heart, but not acquainted
  With shifting change, as is false women’s fashion;
  An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,
  Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;
  A man in hue all hues in his controlling,
  Which steals men’s eyes and women’s souls amazeth.

Personification:
- Nature treated as if capable of affection in the first line.
Anastrophe:
- Reverses order in line one.
Alliteration:
- Examples in lines 2 and 4 enhancing rhythm.
Metonymy:
- Line 3 where "gentle heart" replaces the image of a woman.
Repetition:
- Motifs of fairness and control seen in lines 7 and 14.

Quatrains:
- Explores the young man's blend of feminine beauty and masculine identity, which frustrates the speaker due to the loss of romantic potential.
Couplet:
- Acceptance that despite his desire for the young man, nature's intention renders him available to women but cherished by the speaker’s love.