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Notes On As You Like It
Notes On As You Like It
The poet starts the poem with a question if he could compare his
beloved to a day in summer. He declares that she is more lovely and
nicer. He gives his own reasons. A summer’s day is so windy that it
shakes the small weak young flowers. Summer is short and
hot.Sometimes the sky is cloudy.
2- Personification
his gold complexion
dimm'd
The sun is personified as a man with a dull face.
3- Metaphor
thy eternal summer shall not fade
The poet makes an equation between youth and summer.
4- Personification
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his
shade
The poet personifies death as a human who boasts.
5- Alliteration 2
By chance , or nature's changing course,
untrimm'd