to thine own seif be true
The occasion of this poem is talking about beauty and how everyone wishes to be beautiful. In the first line where he states, “From fairest creatures we desire increase” this means that everyone wants to be with a beautiful person and as the poem continues it speaks on how the person wishes to have a long lasting relationship “but as the riper should by time decease” meaning that over time the love will not die but the outer beauty will. As the poem goes on it says that, “Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel” meaning that the beauty is obsessed with only them and is the type to constantly stand in the mirror and please themselves with the sight of their own beauty. The main metaphor is that of the rose being eternally beautiful and that signifies that of a beauty, but the only significant difference is that unlike the rose who shares their beauty with the rest of the world, but these beautiful people will only keep their beauty to themselves. It shows that as time goes on, the old man that ages is unimportant, the only thing that is important is your own beauty and this keeps the heart at a cruel stage because it is unable to spread the love to others and, “Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel” because there is no way that the beauty from the inside out can be shared with the cruelty that is shown because This metaphor is extended because throughout the poem it shows the path that the beauty’s life takes and how at the end the beauty has “To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.” So that there is a child and the memory of the beauty cannot be lost but it in turn shows that the once beautiful person turns out to be that old man that was not exactly cared for by the beauty in the beginning. There are no similes used in this piece, but there are very descriptive messages as in “Making a famine where abundance lies”, where it is stated that with the loss of the beauty strikes a void into the world because it is a great loss when beauty...