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THE moving sun-shapes on the spray,
The sparkles where the brook was flowing,
Pink faces, plightings, moonlit May,-
These were the things we wished would stay;
But they were going. "That Time Of Year Thou Myst In Me Behold"

William Shakespeare uses many metaphors, he uses them to express his messages

to his audience. William Shakespeare expresses his feelings of getting closer to death by

comparing life to seasons, fire, and the cycle of day. He uses fire and man as his

mataphor. The cycle of fire, is where he compares fire, and life. He says, "In me thou

see'st the glowing of such fire." (Line 9) "That Time Of Year Thou Myst In Me Behold" is also

expressing his feelings to someone. William Shakespeare made thi...