The passage of time is a popular theme among Shakespeare's sonnets, most notably in Sonnet 12. In Sonnet 12, Shakespeare speaks of the changing of seasons and the death of objects as time passes without pause. 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 that play on the theme of time. Shakespeare creates the resolution that the passage of time cannot be avoided and that the only way to face it is to be brave and reproduce so that his species will continue and he makes his own by implementing the antithesis , imagery, alliteration and personification in his sonnet. Shakespeare uses the antithesis in regards to day and night, a specific passage of time. The phrase “And see the brave day sink into the hideous night”; is an example of this antithesis. Shakespeare talks about watching day turn into night and in doing so he differentiates between day and splendor....