Shakespeares Sonnet 19
... In his Sonnet #19 William Shakespeare challenges the force of time in a declaration of the immortality of the one he loves. ... The opening stanza of Sonnet #19 uses vivid imagery in an almost proverbial warning of the power of time. ... In the sonnet’s second stanza Shakespeare begins to woefully surrender to the insurmountable power of time. ... As the sonnet moves into the next stanza the speaker carries the reader into an entirely different mindset with him. ... The final rhyming couplet of the sonnet initially has the feeling of absolute abandonment of the prohibition formerly made against the power of time.