Metaphor In Sonnet 73

Love can be a tricky thing. Love can be the begging to something new, something beautiful. While, Love can also be a dangerous and deserving thing. Love is a feeling many will feel whether for someone or something. Yet, loving someone can truly show not only who someone is as a person but, can show things about yourself you never knew. Thing you wish you never knew. Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 137” shows the dirt and ugly and immoral side your heart can obtain when love is blinding you.

Shakespeare examines love in two different ways in Sonnets 116 and 130. In the first, love is treated in its most ideal form as an uncompromising force (indeed, as the greatest force in the universe); in the latter sonnet, Shakespeare treats love from a more practical aspect: it is viewed simply and realistically without ornament. Yet both sonnets are justifiable in and of themselves, for neither misrepresents love or speaks of it slightingly. Indeed, Shakespeare illustrates two qualities of love in the two sonnets: its potential and its objectivity. This paper will compare and contrast the two sonnets by Shakespeare and show how they represent two different attitudes to love.

In "Sonnet 73", the speaker uses a series of metaphors to characterize what he perceives to be the nature of his old age. This poem is not simply a procession of interchangeable metaphors; it is the story of the speaker slowly coming to grips with the finality of his age and his impermanence in time.

“Love is not love which alters when it alternation finds, or bends with the remover to remove” (Shakespeare 2-4). The speaker in this poem makes it very clear that love remains continuous, even when we become old and when we run into any challenges. Everyone has their definition of love, and this sonnet suggests an optimistic take on it. Love never dies, even when someone tries to destroy it. Instead of being something that simply comes and goes, love is eternal.

William Shakespeare, a name renowned in all circles of English literature, when mentioned inspires recollections of writing and wit, of plays and poetry, and of love and loss. While his sonnets and plays have garnered most of his fame, Shakespeare’s talents extended to other forms of poetry; however, form does not curb his enthusiasm for addressing death. In his poem “Fear No More,” William Shakespeare wields repetition to not only uphold the ineluctable nature of death but also to establish the persistence and will of human nature.

The lover is described as "more temperate" in line 2 and therefore less prone to vary between extremes.

In “Sonnet 93” by William Shakespeare, the speaker has an honest love for his significant other. He seems a little confused and has uncertainty coming from his partner and starts to question their relationship. The speaker is focused on how things look on the outside isn’t always the same as on the inside.  Some people may seem sweet and innocent on the outside, but are evil and cruel on the inside.  Shakespeare uses diction, allusion, imagery, and form and structure in his sonnet to illustrate how people aren’t the same on the outside as on the inside.

Emily Dickinson once said, “Forever is composed of nows.” Love in the renaissance era was passionate but fleeting- always had an obstacle, because marriage was commonly not for love. Love Flings and the modern “crush” happened more often rather than not. As a result, love sonnets were prevalent due to infatuations or heartaches. One of the most routine thematic ideas used in these sonnets was the theme of carpe diem, to seize the day. William Shakespeares, “Carpe Diem,” as well as Andrew Marvells, “To His Coy Mistress,” convey the fleeting romance in the renaissance era using traditional dramatic monologues in order to portray the purpose of carpe diem as a resolution in such dilemmas as well as motto towards life itself.

“Sonnet 73” talks about how there are only a yellow leaves hanging on the branches. Which I think symbolizes when you are at time in your life when you still have time but you can see that it is the end of your life is near. I really like this poem because it talks about imposing death, when no one really wants to talk about death. Why would anyone want to talk about leaving everything you know, if you think about it there are so many things that we can control in our life, but death is not one of them. Being totally helpless to fate is a really scary concept. Next the poem moves into talking about the sun set and how the day moves into night. In this sonnet Shakespeare really focuses on imagery in nature to illustrate his point about how everything changes, nature is a really

When first thought about, love and death seem like two completely different concepts. Death is universally seen as an end to life on Earth which is hard for people to fathom. However, love is seen as an indefinite journey even after death has come to it. The poems discussed in this essay explore those concepts and find similarities between two ideas that seem as different as two things could be. In William Butler Yeats’s “When You Are Old,” and José Emilio Pacheco’s “Ashes,” the physical sense of death and love are explored. And in Shakespeare’s “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”and John Donne’s “Death be Not Proud,” the metaphysical understanding of the two are analyzed. These poems show that death is an end and love can die, but also,

Throughout history, humanity has been plagued by a knowledge of its own mortality. Both “Sonnet to Death” by Heath Bailey and “Sonnet 73” by William Shakespeare explore the concept of death and illustrate its effects differently. The poems both have a somewhat optimistic approach, “Sonnet to death” portraying the grief death brings as insignificant in contrast to the happiness life yields through personification and optimistic tone, while “Sonnet 73” uses metaphor and imagery to portray the inevitability and tragedy of death, and to convey the idea that this inevitably and tragedy can make ones appreciation of life greater. Baily’s “Sonnet to Death” begins with a somewhat bleak tone, describing a “cold death who lays an icy hand on all/

In Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 46” the speaker reveals his view between physical love and emotional love. The poem dramatizes the conflict between the love of appearance versus the love of the inward of a person. The struggle becomes evident in the first line, “mine eye and heart are at mental war” the eye representing lust and infatuation while the heart is without physical lust and is true love. The personification helps illustrate Shakespeare’s offbeat view between the eye and heart, and how to perceive the person whom he loves. Shakespeare further uses the eye calling it “the defendant” pushing the poem to illustrate a traditional courtroom showcasing fully the opposing forces.

To some death is the end, but in the end, it is also the beginning. Shakespeare wrote many Sonnets about life, death, and love. Shakespeare's 71st Sonnet is one such Sonnet that focuses on these traits. In “Sonnet 71”, Shakespeare wrote of a man passing and his loved ones mourning him. In this poem, death is not an end, but instead a release, Shakespeare conveys this through emotional tone, the theme, and strange wording.

In Shakespeare’s sonnet 116 he realistically describes love in more of a romantic way, but still conserves the realism of love lasting through rough times. In this sonnet personification is used to describe how as death approaches, good looks fade, but if two people's love is true, then their deep affection will not end because of this: “Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks / Within his bending sickle's compass come” (lines 9-10). The personification of love and time brings forth the idea of them physically stealing a loved one’s outer beauty; however, if two people are truly in love, the loss of one’s beauty should not matter as described later in sonnet 116 and in the tone. The tone of determination is used to describe how if two people have a strong enough bond, their love should last through the hard times in life: “Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds, / Or bends with the remover to remove” (lines 2-4). The affection between two people should not be changed or taken away, if their love does change, then they did not have determination to love in the first place. Both of these sonnets show great representations of

Shakespeare, who wrote the sonnets in 1609, expresses his own feelings through his greatest work of literature. The theme of love in the poems reflect thoughts from the Renaissance period. Love is one of many components of Shakespeare’s life shown in the sonnets. Love can be defined in many ways other than a strong affection for a lover. In Shakespeare’s sonnets, the concept of love can be seen through many uncommon means such as the love of life before death in “Sonnet 73,” love in marriage in “Sonnet 116,” love through sexual desire in “Sonnet 129,” and love through nature in “Sonnet 130,” proving that love can be expressed through many different feelings and emotions.