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Sonnet 54
Ana Leonor Marinho Oliveira
Created on March 22, 2025
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Sonnet 54
Shakespeare
Expressive resources
Theme
Sonnet 54
Sonnet 54
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, By that sweet ornament which truth doth give. The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odor which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumèd tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer’s breath their maskèd buds discloses; But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odors made. And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall vade, by verse distils your truth.
Theme
Beauty
Truth
Expressive resources
Metaphor
The poem uses the metaphor of roses and wild herbs to show that true beauty lies not only in appearance, but also in essence and authenticity.
"The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live."