William Shakespeare has always been my favorite poet, therefore, if I have an opportunity to analyze his poems, I always do it during my classes. It is always interesting to find something new in the lines which have managed to become close to me and to my understanding of the world. The choice of Shakespeare’s poem for analysis was also because it contains many metaphors. Speaking about figurative analysis, it is important to check whether a poem has metaphors and other devices. Shakespeare’s language has always been full of language devices, therefore any of his poems are great in the analysis. Trying to make the discussion as effective as possible, I chose the poem full of figures and which may be easily considered from this perspective. Speaking about the main metaphor in the poem, it is the old age and the death of the main character. Connecting these life processes with nature, the author creates a great parallel between autumn as the old age of a person and winter death. Imagining autumn, many people think about a close end of something warm. Such a parallel the author draws is not a surprise, as many authors tried to connect winter with the death, however, the idea of old age to present in the form of autumn is a new one. Shakespeare writes, That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late, the sweet birds sang (Shakespeare, n.d.). These are the first lines of the poem. The author gets acquainted the reader with the main character of an old age, whose life has almost finished. These lines show that the main character wants nothing, he just flows in the stream, and nothing new interests him/her. Describing in such a way human elderly age, Shakespeare shows that people usually know that winter (or the death) is close, and they just wait for it. It is important to try to imagine the autumn discussed by the author and to try to relate the discussion to the human being. The first line, “That time of year thou mayst in me behold” (Shakespeare, n.d.) is the way how the author presents the theme of his discussion and the way how human life is positioned. Reading the poem, people understand from the first lines that the seasons are the periods of human life. Looking at nature, it really seems to express the life cycle of a person when the end of life in autumn with the winter-death. The second stanza represents the very death of the character, In me, thou seest the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest (Shakespeare, n.d.). “Black night” is the expression which the author presents as the exact description of the death. Therefore, it may be concluded that the author gives effective metaphors in describing the death which may not be avoided. Stating that the winter is the final stage in the life of a person, Shakespeare strengthens his metaphor with calling the death night. Therefore, when winter comes, a person dies, at night, the part of the day which seems the most strange and mysterious for people. Night is the time when al