how do shakespeare's sonnets feed off the world around him?

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Line 5 sees the possible reference to Queen Elizabeth's death, for ?the mortal moon hath he eclipse endured,' is quite possibly a less than mordant reference to a Monarch that survived the Spanish Armada, assassination attempts, her grand climacteric, major illness and rebellion by the Earl of Essex...
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Line 8 sees an interesting metaphor referring to the ?olives of endless age.' It is widely accepted that olive trees are a symbol of peace, prosperity and power. Another image, which arguably presents time as ?balmy' is that of the ?speechless tribes...
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sonnet 116 ?Sonnet 116' is a poem about ?William Shakespeare'. The poem is about what true love is and what it isn't about. The poet uses imagery to make clear his views of love...	3 / 643
Sonnet 116 Sonnet 116 is just one of the many great works of Shakespeare. In it, he identifies what love is, and what it is not. His idea is that love is unbreakable, and will prevail through all hardships...	2 / 316
Sonnet 116 The phrase "or bends with the remover to remove" implies, however, that true love continues even when it is not shared, when it is no longer a "common factor...	3 / 643
The Sonnet Form and its Meaning: Shakespeare's Sonnet 65 The sonnet, being one of the most traditional and recognized forms of poetry, has been used and altered in many time periods by writers to convey different messages to the audience...	7 / 1848
Shakespeare's Sonnet #73 The first quatrain, "That time of the year thou mayst behold me/ When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang/ Upon those boughs which shake against the cold/ Bare ruin choirs where late the sweet bird sang...	3 / 709
William Shakespeare's Sonnet, 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 ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang...	4 / 1020
Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 Shakespeare uses metaphors to show one object or idea having the same qualities as another. For example, he introduces metaphor within the first line of the sonnet when he asks the rhetorical question, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" Shakespeare uses this as a comparison because a "summer's day" is something with incredible beauty but is still not as beautiful as Shakespeare's love...	5 / 1269