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This 4 page paper explicates and explains Shakespeare's Sonnet 73. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Sonnet 73. Discussion The poem is one of ending and loss; it is undeniably sad, but its sadness comes from its acceptance of the inevitability of aging and death. The
first four lines describe the speaker, making him analogous to late autumn: "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 [ruind] choirs, where late the sweet birds sang." The "time of year" is clearly autumn, and he says
that anyone looking at him would see that. The "yellow leaves" could refer to his thinning hair, but since they hang on branches that now shake with cold, they can
also be interpreted to be clothing, which has now grown too large for his shrinking frame. His arms may shake with cold, but its also probable that they shake with
age as well. We can also reasonably infer that the "bare ruined choirs" refer to the changes in his voice; once it was sweet and full, now it is scratchy
and hoarse with age. He continues the analogy in the next four lines, now comparing himself to the kind of twilight that precedes an impenetrably dark night; a night that
is so black that it seems like death itself. The inference we have to make here is that he is dying, or at least is old enough to understand that
death is not something that is decades away. The next four lines are more difficult: "In me thou seest the glowing of such fire / That on the ashes
of his youth doth lie, / As the death-bed whereon it must expire, / Consumd with that which it was nourishd by." The "that" of the last line, the thing
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