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A 3 page explication of “Sonnet 73” by William Shakespeare. In addition to his plays, Williams Shakespeare is famous for his beautiful sonnets. In “Sonnet 73” Shakespeare presents three metaphors that collectively show his gradual acceptance of his progression towards death. Each metaphor illustrates his understanding and conceptualization of death, and culminates in an appeal that the recipient of the poem will allow this knowledge to make his love for the poet stronger as death will surely soon part them. No additional sources cited.
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towards death. Each metaphor illustrates his understanding and conceptualization of death, and culminates in an appeal that the recipient of the poem will allow this knowledge to make his love
for the poet stronger as death will surely soon part them. The first four lines picture the poets age as analogous to late autumn, a time of year when
"yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang/Upon those boughs" (lines 2-3). Rather than sheltering choirs of birds, the limbs of the trees are bare, making their own chattering music
as they "shake against the cold" (line 3). This is a bleak image that brings to mind the close proximity of the cold of winter, which the poet equates with
death. In conjuring this image, the poet also suggests that old age is a bleak and desolate time of life. The second quatrain compares old age to the twilight
of the day, the time when the "sunset fadeth in the west" (line 6). In these lines, Shakespeare says overtly that death is approaching, as he compares the coming night
directly to death, calling it "Deaths second self, that seals up all in rest" (line 8). But while one wakes from the "death" of sleep, there is no waking, no
spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next four lines, which compares the poets time
of life to a dying fire. He states that in him, the reader can see the glow of a fire that rests on the "ashes of his youth" (line
10). In other words, just as a fire burns brightly as it consumes the foundation of wood that was laid in the hearth, and then slowly dies as all flammable
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