Are there any metaphors in the opening speech of Shakespeare's Richard III?

Question

What are some metaphors (not similes) in the opening monologue speech of Shakespeare's historical play, Richard III?

The speech is spoken by Richard, btw.

Thanks in advance!

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York,
And all the clouds that loured upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths,
Our bruisèd arms hung up for monuments,
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barbèd steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking glass;
I, that am rudely stamped and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dog

That dogs bark at me as I halt by them—
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to see my shadow in the sun
And descant on mine own deformity.
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determinèd to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,
To set my brother Clarence and the king
In deadly hate, the one against the other;
And if King Edward be as true and just
As I am subtle, false, and treacherous,
This day should Clarence closely be mewed up
About a prophecy which says that “G”
Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be.
Dive, thoughts, down to my soul. Here Clarence comes.

Answer 1

If you can't find them in Shakespeare you're in trouble. They're all over the place. In the first two lines....and there's a pun.

Answer 2

Richard Iii Monologue

Answer 3

There are metaphors for the eventual death of Clarence by drowning: "And all the clouds that low'r'd upon our house / In the deep bosom of the ocean buried" and "Dive, thoughts, down to my soul, here Clarence comes!". These metaphors put Richard's nature and ambitions in the 'bosom' of the ocean, waiting there for Clarence's death. The ocean is the source of all life, and it is there that he waits for death. Hinting also that Richard was never nurtured by his mother, rejected for his ugliness (those clouds low'r'd upon our house came down when he was born). Later a related metaphor: 'Cheated of feature / by dissembling nature' and I think this one speaks to what we think of as nurture v.s. nature. Mother Nature 'cheated' Richard in the looks department, also his own mother cheated him of affection (he was not 'featured'), and here Shakespeare's metaphor compares this to how Richard has shaped his own features by a lifetime of wearing the expressions of his 'deceptive'(dissembling) nature.
His own self-determination is his nurture, by his account. But since it is unnatural for a child to nurture himself, we have another metaphor: 'But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks / Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass'. You think again of how he is self-made (contrast to 'made to court'). All these metaphors speak to how he has become what he resembles, and how it is to make himself 'natural', to redeem nature for her faults.

Answer 4

That is a homework question that you should answer for your self.
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