He had been inspired by a series of recent lectures by Hazlitt on English poets and poetic identity and had also met Wordsworth. Keats may have seemed to his friends to be living on comfortable means, but in reality he was borrowing regularly from Abbey and his friends.

“Between 1814 and 1819, John Keats wrote sixty-four sonnets. He was eighteen years old when he composed his first sonnet; he was turning twenty-four when he completed his last one.

Sonnets are lyrical poems of 14 lines that follow a specific rhyming pattern. Sonnets usually feature two contrasting characters, events, beliefs or emotions. Poets use the sonnet form to examine the tension that exists between the two elements. Several variations of sonnet structure have evolved over the years.

Understanding the significance of a sonnet can help you strengthen close reading and analytical skills, build a better appreciation for poetry, and derive more meaning from your reading. The sonnet is a significant form of poetry with a set structure.

Sonnet 18 is a typical English or Shakespearean sonnet, having 14 lines of iambic pentameter: three quatrains followed by a couplet. It also has the characteristic rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. The poem reflects the rhetorical tradition of an Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet.

In the conclusion of the Sonnet 18, W. Shakespeare admits that ‘Every fair from fair sometime decline,’ he makes his mistress’s beauty an exception by claiming that her youthful nature will never fade (Shakespeare 7).

In Sonnet 18, they have alliteration in the line “By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d;”. Chance, changing and couse starts with the word C. Both of the song and poem have rhymes.

A pathetic fallacy is similar to personification, in which human qualities or characteristics, but not necessarily human emotions, are assigned to an object, animal, or elements in nature, such as “The eye of heaven” and it’s “gold complexion” (lines 5-6), and perhaps “death brag” (line 11).

Answer. The eye of heaven means sometimes the sun shines with too much heat…

An obvious example of personification is that of the sun, referred to obliquely as ‘the eye of heaven’ and said to have a ‘gold complexion’.

When Shakespeare says the woman will “grow” within the “eternal lines to time” he means that people will remember her because they remember the poem. He closes with “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see/ so long lives this [the poem] and this gives life to thee.”