Problem: In William Shakespeare's "My love is as a fever, longing still," sonnet 127, the speaker describes how love has changed him. How does Shakespeare uses literary elements and techniques to characterize the speaker's complex attitude toward his transformation using sonnet 127 only?
What metaphor in the second quatrain personifies "reason" (l. 5)? What is the effect of this personification, particularly when juxtaposed with the imagery in the first quatrain?