Analysis Of But Thy Summer Shall Not Fade By Langston Hughes

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In line 9, the author says that the summer is everlasting and that it will never go away. Looking through a metaphorical sense, we can translate this to mean that certain characteristics that the young boy has will never go away. The summer will not lose beauty that it owns, says line 10. This furthers the metaphor of the boy never losing certain lovable characteristics. Death will not be able to brag about the death of the young man. Time will always continue to go on, and the boy will continue to live. He uses metaphor in, “But thy eternal summer shall not fade”, which personifies death. Making it “his shade”, he shows how the boy will be in fact, eternal. Alliteration and consonance is used in, “Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his

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