what are some poetic devices in shakespearean sonnet 22??

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Answer 1

Sonnet 22 Meaning
.......Even though my mirror tells me that I am aging, the poet says, I will not grow old while you remain young. However, when I see wrinkles (“time’s furrows”) on your face, then I will look for death to come for me and take me as payment for any offenses I may have committed in my life. Your heart and mine are bound together, and I will guard yours as carefully as a nurse caring for a baby. But do not presume that you will be unaffected when my heart is no longer able to beat for you. Here, the poet appears to be warning the young man that ending their relationship would have adverse consequences
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In sonnet 22 the Poet considers the logical implications of his own youth. His image in the 'glass' (mirror) will not grow 'old' (22.1) since he and the youth are logically the same person. They share the same or 'one (birth) date' (22.2). When the Poet sees 'time's furrows' in his brow he recognises that 'death' (22.4) will soon end his days. But, just as the youth's heart is within the Poet, the external beauty of the youth is the internal 'raiment' of the Poet's once youthful 'heart' (22.6). Their 'hearts' are one and the same because the youth is logically a persona of the Poet.
The aging Poet carries within him the ‘heart’ he had when young and so the effects of its youthful potential. It is the same heart because it represents the ‘love’ or increase that is common to them both. The ‘heart’ lives in the youth’s ‘breast’ and the Poet’s ‘breast’ (22.7). The Poet’s logic precisely characterises the relation between the external world of the senses and his internal world of understanding.
The Poet advises the youth to be ‘wary’ (22.9) of misunderstanding the nature of his ‘love’. The Poet cares not for ‘my self ’ but for the potential of youth. He ‘bears’ the youth’s ‘heart’, respectful that the ‘heart’ needs to be ‘nursed’warily so that it does not ‘fare ill’ from the adolescent tendency to selfishness (22.12). The couplet confirms that the Poet’s ‘love’ for the ‘youth’ is based in the interconnectedness of their ‘hearts’. ‘Youth’ is the logical precondition for the poetry that will die if the youth does not appreciate the consequences of the Poet being ‘slain’ before the logical potential of the youth’s heart is realised through increase.


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Answer 2

Sonnet 22

Answer 3

Metaphores, similies and analogies are all types of one thing, comparisons. Calling a mirror a glass is an allusion to a mirror rather than naming it. Less boring than using the same olf words over and over. Personification of the mirror as persuading him or even the truth as persuading seems like personification as I don't have another word right now. Every thought about something is by comparison, nothing is something else. They say all thinking is comparisons. An interesting possibility. Again time as a person or force that wrinkles or furrows the forehead could be personification or having attributes of a living thing. He should talk about being old, but his heart clothes her with youth in his mind or heart, emotions like clothes, simile, the similarities to clothes. The youth in her heart clothes her. Youth as clothes. I'm not sure if a metaphore applies or in some ways a simile also. Personifying love to be wary as a person although I suspect you could look at that different ways also. Maybe not or maybe, you can decide. I guess he is living on love of her as his heart is slain, perhaps as she changed her heart and he can't give hers back. Her heart as his, again a simile, but everything relates, so I have a hard time not seeing it as having aspects of different figures of speech, only mainly one, I would say simile, 'as'. A simile is 'as' or 'like' in my dictionary, while analogy is only 'like'. Not in this case, but in some, which figure of speech depends on how he saw it and we have to make our best guess on that, I think.