ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Shakespeare personifies the sun, calling it “the eye of heaven” with “his gold complexion dimmed” – the sun’s complexion dimmed in comparison to the beloved’s. Giving the sun a human quality begins to degrade what we normally consider the powerful, untouchable sun.

Detailed explanation-2: -An example of Personification in Sonnet 18 is from stanza 2 and it says “Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, and often his gold complexion dimm’d.” This is personification because it is comparing the Sun to a man with a great complexion.

Detailed explanation-3: -Line 11-Personification "Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade". This line contains a personification: Death can brag. This is impossible for everything that is not a human.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: The phrase “eye of heaven” in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 is not an example of a metaphor. Rather, it is an example of a different figure of speech known as metonymy.

Detailed explanation-5: -The beloved’s life is described in a metaphor as a “summer, ” and then his or her beauty is described in another metaphor as a commodity than can be owned or owed. Death is then personified, as the overseer of the shade (a metaphor itself for an afterlife).