That time of year is the English sonnet I chose, written by William
Shakespeare. William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and died in 1616.
He grew up in England. When he had been kicked out of school, he started
writing plays, performing plays, and writing sonnets. His literature is known
worldwide. Shakespeare discusses and elaborates about his love for the
time of year between late fall and early winter. At the end of the sonnet, he
shows how everybody must leave, at one point, behind what they really love
in life by dying. This sonnet consists of imagery, personification, allusion,
Imagery is very significant throughout the sonnet. For example,
" When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang/ Upon those boughs which
shake against the cold." Imagery is defined as the representation through
language of sense experience. These two lines show imagery by sense of
visualization. The falling and color changing leaves show how the season is
fall. The second sentence shows how a breeze of cold air or snow is
shaking the branches of trees in the beginning of winter. Another example
is " In me thou see'st the twilight of such day " In the second quote, the
narrator is feeling a sense of holyness inside of him. The imagery is the
sense of feeling something. In these two quotes, there were two types of
imagery : sense of feeling within a person and visual sense.
Allusion was expressed throughout the sonnet, from beginning to end.
For instance, " Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang." Another
example of allusion is " That on the ashes of his youth doth lie " Allusion is
a reference to something in history or previous literature. The first quote
goes back in time where some kind of church or religious building was
full of praise by the choirs and when birds would be singing. But now it is
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