Certainly the main figure of speech that it is incredibly
important to grasp to understand the poem as a whole comes in lines 3 and 4 of this
excellent poem. Let us analyse these two lines in depth to explore Jonson's own feelings
about his son and God:
Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee
pay,
Exacted by thy fate, on the just
day.
This is thus an
excellent metaphor in which Jonson compares his son to a loan from God that came due
after seven years. Thus we can see that in this poem that is a poem of grief and
sadness, Jonson is presenting the "ownership" of his son as not really being his, but
being something that has been entrusted to him by God and was never truly "his" in the
first place. This central metaphor acts as the base for the rest of the poem where
Jonson tries to accept the fact that perhaps he "loved" his son too
much.
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