![]() He says time should not age “carve not with thy hours” his lover’s beauty “my love’s fair brow” nor create wrinkles on his forehead “draw no lines there” but allow him to retain his beauty “untainted do allow” so future generations of men can admire him “beauty’s pattern to succeeding men”. He then tells time he can continue the change of seasons “glad and sorry seasons “and do whatever it wants “do whate’er thou wilt” to age world and its beauty “world and all her fading sweets” But he forbids time to do one thing “I forbid thee” calling it a crime “most heinous crime” ![]() Time also makes tigers toothless “teeth from the fierce tiger’s jaws and the phoenix (A mythological firebird) burn up in its own blood “long-liv’d phoenix, in her blood ” “blunt thou the lion’s paws” He says all beautiful things on earth die “earth devour her own sweet brood ” ![]() ![]() In sonnet 19 Shakespeare uses animal imagery to describe how time steals everything “Devouring Time even animals age” with the lion’s claws growing blunt with time. ![]()
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