In Sonnet 54, a beauty so deep and pure could only be discovered

through oneself: honesty and truth is the only way one could achieve beauty

that never dies out. William Shakespeare’s use of over exaggerated imagery

and understanding of beauty in comparison to a rose reveals the compassion

the poet has toward inner beauty. The powerful context in the lines- “youth,”

“beauteous,” “vade,” “death,” “truth,” and the simile “the canker blooms have

full as deep a dye as the perfumed tincture of the roses”- resembles such

passion in beauty and those few words linger in our brains. These few

forceful words resemble that the prettiest roses could smell the worst and

the ugliest smell the best, referring to mortal beauty doesn’t compare to

one’s personal emotional beauty. The poet emphasis’ the idea of beauty

fading by introducing a thought of death, as one grows older they also get

less attractive to the eye. Unfortunately, Shakespeare and his mistress are in

times hands, as time goes by their beauty fades. By as time flies by the poet,

Shakespeare, reveals the truth within beauty which is that it comes from the

inside. Unlike the moral of the poem the beauty in Shakespeare’s words

never fade, the readers are left with the idea of beauty making the words

linger in our minds so that when we might die out our beauty won’t.

Shakespeare’s words are left at the tips of tongues and remain in our hearts

and minds. The poets words echo to all humanity making people thrive in

order to achieve long lasting beauty.