Essay for Shakespeares Sonnet 73

expressed that all death is the same, and one will go out of the world

Compare William Shakespeare’s Sonnets 12 and 73 William Shakespeare (1564-1616) wrote a group of 154 sonnets between 1592 and 1597, which were compiled and published under the title 'Shakespeare's Sonnets' in 1609. The 154 poems are divided into two groups, a larger set, consisting of sonnets 1-126 which are addressed by the poet to a dear young man, the smaller group of sonnets 127-154 address another persona, a 'dark lady'. The larger set of sonnets display a deliberate sequence, a sonnet cycle akin to that used a decade earlier by the English poet Phillip Sidney (1554-1586) in 'Astrophel and Stella'. The themes of love and infidelity are dominant in both sets of poems, in the larger grouping; these themes are interwoven

the glowing of such fire that on the ashes of his youth doth lie, as the death-bed whereon it must expire" (9-11). Thus, the narrator is claiming that his youth has died like ashes of a fire and that these ashes will soon consume the fire, that is, his life. Thus, by comparing death to the fall season, twilight, sleep, and a dying fire, the narrator encourages "thou" to love him all the more while he is still

When a character in Romeo and Juliet loses someone they love dearly and has made them a part of their identity, they willingly welcome death and leave their true identity. This

     For those readers who have had personal experience with death and those they love dying around them, this passage is especially depressing. It is also

The author was saying that old age shouldn’t stop you from pursuing things in life, that you should fight against death. In your final days you should enjoy life and “burn and rave”, because before you know it, your life could be gone.

Lines nine through twelve describe the dying out of a flame -- the final extinguishing of a light:

Once his prized possession is gone, he will have nothing left for him, as he did not beget any children. In the ninth line, "Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament" the man is glancing back at the past where he was young and vital, and his “pretty-face” was just another decoration piece. However, like any glass ornament, they can soon break and lose all of their value. Once every ornament is gone, there will be none left, therefore this man is contributing to a diminishing race. In line eleven, “within thine own bud buriest thy content", the beauty which he is keeping to himself, is being destroyed on his own will. Once time has left a mark on him, he will be nothing but the ashes of a fire, or a dead withered, once beautiful, rose. Line 12, "and, tender churl, mak'st waste in niggarding", shows the paradox of the words “tender” and “churl” which is a waste in hoarding. This is referring to youth as being completely useless and worthless, if one does not

We see our death coming long before its arrival, we notice impermanence in the changes we see around us and to us in the arrival of aging and the suffering due to losing our youth. Once we were strong and beautiful and as we age, as we approach our final moments of life we realize how fleeting such a comfortable place actually was.

The poem Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare follows a typical Shakespearean sonnet structure; fourteen lines, three quatrains followed by a rhyming couplet, a basic ababcdcdefefgg rhyme scheme, and predominately following iambic pentameter with one additional unstressed syllable in the first line of each quatrain and the couplet. The sonnet as a whole is an extended metaphor for the aging and process and death; however, it is broken into three smaller metaphors all supporting the speaker’s impending end of life through the process of aging. Natural aspects- winter, twilight, and fire- are presented as an extended metaphor for the the thematic undertone of aging and death.

This is a recurring theme in the characters personality that never seems to expire until the man himself expires. The passage becomes increasingly grotesque: “His flesh was burning. He could smell it. Deep down below the surface he could feel it. The sensation developed into pain that grew acute. And still he endured it, holding the flame of the matches clumsily to the bark that would not light readily because his own burning hands were in the way, absorbing most of the flame” (London 131). This quote is symbolic of the way the man’s inability to challenge his own perception is causing his own demise; he is burning his own flesh and absorbing most of the flame in the process.

Furthermore Shakespeare compares “The Last Age” to childishness and oblivion meaning that after you have gone through all the stages everything you have built up demolishes and you start back at the first stage. The last line of the poem helps you to determine how the play ends and because this comparison is made it makes you aware of people in your life that have gone through a few of the stages described by Shakespeare. Giving you the idea that the stages may occur in your life but in the end it really doesn’t matter what you have done, because it will most likely be destroyed. The idea that what you have developed will be demolished makes you wonder what you are doing and have done with your life.

Edmund Spenser’s Sonnet 67 is one of 85 sonnets from Amoretti which was written about his courtship of Elizabeth Boyle. Spenser and Boyle were married in 1594. Sonnet 67 uses a hunting themed metaphor common in 16th century England comparing the woman to a deer and the man to a huntsman in pursuit. Sonnet 67 appears to have been inspired by an earlier work by Petrarch, Rima 190, but with a different ending. In this paper we will take an in depth look at this work, also commonly referred to as “ Lyke as a Huntsman”.

During the Renaissance period, most poets were writing love poems about their lovers/mistresses. The poets of this time often compared love to high, unrealistic, and unattainable beauty. Shakespeare, in his sonnet 18, continues the tradition of his time by comparing the speakers' love/mistress to the summer time of the year. It is during this time of the year that the flowers and the nature that surround them are at there peak for beauty. The theme of the poem is to show the speakers true interpretation of beauty. Beauties worst enemy is time and although beauty might fade it can still live on through a person's memory or words of a poem. The speaker realizes that beauty, like the subject of the poem, will remain perfect not in the

Again, Death is to be considred as a trivial matter as he doesn’t come by himself, but rather by “fate, Chance, Kings, and desperate men” or with the help of notorious drugs like “poison, warre, and sicknesse dwell”. It appears like the narrator doesn’t think that one