The passage of time is a popular theme among Shakespeare's sonnets, more specifically in Sonnet 12. In Sonnet 12 Shakespeare talks about the seasons changing and objects dying as time passes without stopping. Event after event occurs in a cycle where birth is the beginning and death is the end and everyone is a part of it. It is also important to note that Sonnet 12 is significant in that there are twelve hours in a day, twelve hours in a night, and twelve months in a year which play with the theme of time. Shakespeare establishes that the passage of time cannot be avoided and that the only way to face it is to be brave and grow so that one's kind continues to live and he does his by implementing antithesis, imagery, alliteration, and personification in his sonnet. Shakespeare uses the antithesis regarding day and night, a specific passage of time. The phrase “And watch the brave day sink into the awful night;” is an example of this antithesis. Shakespeare talks about watching the day turn into night and in doing so makes the differentiation of the day splendid and...