Answer to Question #244918 in English for Laila

Question

William Shakespeare's in line "Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang" is an example of imagery because it appeals to sound.

true or false

Answer 1

True. What is especially striking about Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 is that each quatrain contains a metaphor within a metaphor. For example, in the first quatrain he compares his time of life to early winter when the trees have lost almost all their leaves.