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This 4 page paper analyses two of Shakespeare’s sonnets, numbers 2 and 73. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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one the writer is discussing the effects of aging upon himself, and in the other, the writer is giving advice to another person about the aging process. In Sonnet 2,
the writer is advising a young man about his behavior, and advising him that he should marry and have an heir to replicate his beauty. Since the sonnet form is
three quatrains followed by a couplet, well look at four line segments, and the last rhyme. The first quatrain here is "When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, /
And dig deep trenches in thy beautys field, / Thy youths proud livery so gazed on now, / Will be a totterd weed of small worth held." The poet is
asking the young an to consider what it will be like when hes 40 years of age and has deep lines on his forehead. By then, the "proud livery" that
he wears now will have lost its beauty and no one will be impressed by it. Here "proud livery" can refer to livery in its usual sense, that of the
type of uniforms worn by servants such as chauffeurs and butlers; or it can refer to the young mans physical attractiveness. In the first case, the uniform will become old
and tattered; if its the second meaning, then Shakespeare is commenting on the fact that as the man becomes less attractive, people will begin to ignore him or think less
of him than they did earlier. The second quatrain suggests that if the young man is asked where his beauty has gone, he will have to answer that he wasted
it in easy living and lusty pursuits: "Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies, / Where all the treasure of thy lusty days; / To say, within thine own
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