Time - The use of the capital ‘T’ shows that Time is personified here My love shall in my verse ever live young.ĭevouring - consuming / eating with enthusiasm Yet do thy worst, old Time! Despite thy wrong Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen! O, carve not with the hours my love’s fair brow,
To the wide world and all her fading sweets īut I forbid thee one more heinous crime: Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleets,Īnd do whate’er thou wilt, swift-footed Time, Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger’s jaws,Īnd burn the long-liv’d Phoenix in her blood
#Sonnet 19 pdf#
To get a full PDF analysis of this poem, click this link.ĭevouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws,Īnd make the earth devour her own sweet brood Thanks for reading! If you find this resource useful, you can take a look at our full CIE poetry courses and other help with English Literature and Language here. The analysis is tailored towards CIE / Cambridge IGCSE and A Level students, but it’s also useful for anyone studying the poem at any level or on the following exam boards: AQA, Edexcel, OCR, Eduqas / WJEC, CCEA. Given that we’re reading this poem over 400 years after Shakespeare wrote it, you could say that he was right. Though Time destroys everything, the speaker says he has the power to fight against it by making great art that immortalises the things that he finds beautiful about the world. ‘Sonnet 19′ by William Shakespeare is a great little poem, it shows a speaker locked in a battle against Time.
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