...of everyday conventional thought). Let's take the following lines from one of Shakespeare's sonnets: In me thou seest the twilight of such day As after...away, Death's second self that seals up all in rest. These lines combine at least five everyday conceptual metaphors: LIGHT IS A SUBSTANCE, EVENTS ARE ACTIONS,...

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...Shakespeare That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs*...such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by-and-by black night doth take away, Death's second self that seals up all in rest, In me thou see'st...

...That time of year thou may'st in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs,...take away, Death's second self, that seals up all the rest. In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire, That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the...

...the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight ofsuch day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and...seals up all in rest. In me thou seest the glowing ofsuch fire That on the ashes ofhis youth doth lie, As the death-bed whereon it must expire Consumed...

...yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang 57 Upon the boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou...take away, Death's second self, that seals up all the rest. In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire, That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the...

...the curtains were going to strangle you? Guess you loosened a thread or two on me that night. BARD: "In me thou seest the twilight of such day As after...away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest." VOICE: Anyway, I'm off to the old dumperoo. Enough of the reminiscing. Take it easy, Ricky. RICK: Uh......

...Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang. 4 In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after...away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. 8 In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed...

...centuries apart. In Shakespeare's Sonnet 73, twilight serves as a trope for the penultimate and transitory: "In me thou seest the twilight of such day, / As after.../ Death's second self, that seals up all in rest" (5—8). In Wordsworth's sonnet, "It is a beauteous evening," on the other hand, this moment becomes...