Receptacle of beauty is at a higher pedastel than beauty itself :SHAKESPEARE

Shakespeare has written Sonnet 18th .It is made up of fourteen lines and it has three quatrains and a concluding couplet. A thing of beauty is a joy forever says Keats. Shakespeare puts the receptacle of beauty at a higher pedestal than beauty itself. Shakespeare admits that we have lovely flowers in month of May but he adds that every fare from fair sometime declines .Every living and nonliving thing is subject to death and decay. the poet exerts that the beauty of his friend shall never decay and the poet is certain that his verses will live forever and through them the beauty of his beloved friend. the poet here too strives to establish his own credentials . More than his friend he pays tribute to his own poetic talent and there is a touch of vanity also. the poet never says that his friend will Live eternally rather he says that his lines are eternal .If we discuss about the permanence and transience the poet is mainly talking about transience, the poet compares the shoddiness of all other things with the matchless quality of the poet's verses. The poet uses personification in the line "Nor shall death brag", alliteration in the line "And every fair from fair" , also discusses metaphor. Sonnet ends with the couplet. "so long as men can breathe aur eyes can see ,so long lives this and this gives life to thee".