Abstract：In Shakespeare 's sonnets, metaphors are employed, among which war metaphors are more prominent, mainly clustered on themes of “beauty”and “love”. While taking the war as the source domain and “beauty”and “love”as the target domains, Shakespeare vividly describes contractions and conflicts between men, man and time, highlighting the fierceness and hardship in the pursuit of victory, and proving the difficulty in maintaining beauty and youth, and winning others' love. In the given conceptual metaphor system, whether in the source domain or the two target domains, its content is centered on humans or their activity, which makes the sonnets full of humanism; moreover, the use of metaphor makes the works more meaningful and more vivid.

Keyword：sonnets;war metaphors;beauty;conflicts;time;