Sonnet 73 Essay

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. In the first quatrain, the speaker contrasts his age is like a "time of year,": late autumn, when the "yellow leaves" have almost completely fallen from the trees and the boughs "shake against the

Sonnet 73 and A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning explores the ideas regarding love and the death, although, it can be argued, that these ideas are portrayed in different ways. Sonnet 73 exhibits the notion of death through the natural act of ageing. As well as, highlighting death through ageing, Shakespeare highlights death through pastoral elements such as seasons of the year. However, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning puts forth the idea regarding love through figurative language, metaphors and

text The Road Not Taken by Robert Lee Frost and the text Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare both use a similar topic of text structure to express the central idea and theme. The authors want to prove they're different topic. The authors are slightly different when they wrote there poem. Both text compare because they are both poem uses same figurative language. However, the author's text structure each selection differently because Sonnet 73 only has 1 stanza and The Road Not Taken has 4 stanzas. Both

religious conflicts, influences, and the pervasive Renaissance secular humanism of that period, a rereading of Shakespeare’s choice and order of the metaphors in Sonnet 73 reveals that the speaker delivers not just the obvious message on enduring age, time, and ultimate death, but also a subtle profession of atheistic

Metaphorically Speaking – Sonnet 73     Love is a blanket of bright and colorful flowers that covers a beautifully rolling meadow on a breezy summer day. Similar metaphorical images appear in many famous poems including Shakespeare's "Sonnet 73." The metaphor is the most basic device poets use to convey meanings beyond literal speech (Guth 473). Shakespeare's use of metaphors in this sonnet conveys his theme of the inescapable aging process. Shakespeare "establishes and extends a metaphor

William Shakespeare, in his Sonnet 73 and Sonnet 116, sets forth his vision of the unchanging, persistent and immovable nature of true love. According to Shakespeare, love is truly "till death do us part," and possibly beyond. Physical infirmity, the ravages of age, or even one's partner's inconstancy have no effect upon the affections of one who sincerely loves. His notion of love is not a romantic one in which an idealized vision of a lover is embraced. Instead he recognizes the weaknesses to which

The Death of Creative Power in Sonnet 73            Most of the 127 sonnets Shakespeare wrote to one of his close male friends are united by the theme of the overwhelming, destructive power of time, and the counterbalancing power of love and poetry to create and preserve beauty. Sonnet 73 is no different, but it does present an intriguing twist on this theme. Most of these sonnets address the youth and beauty of his male friend, as well as

shown that he has no fear when it comes to death. In fact, when his ineluctable end comes during his epic grapple for power with Macduff, he keeps battling, even though he knows he will meet his demise. This is a contrast between the speaker in "Sonnet 73"; this man is perturbed by death, yet he knows the certainty of it, like Macbeth. By portraying the fears and anxieties of the speaker as he faces his decline, Shakespeare explores the idea that death will come inevitably, bringing with it sorrow

The volta, or change of tone, in this sonnet occurs at line 9 when the speaker says, “Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, / And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,”. The speaker compares Death to a “slave”, suggesting that Death does not act on his own free will, instead, is it controlled or manipulated by other things such as “fate, chance, kings, and desperate men.” Furthermore, the speaker insinuates that Death does not have any noble companions, but rather is associated

“Death” himself is proud to collect people’s life but in Donne’s view he should not be proud as it is only a way for people wake eternally. In Sonnet 18 “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” by William Shakespeare, a person can be immortal and lives in his verse. The persona first compares the beauty with a summer’s day and lastly concludes that his beloved beauty is everlasting while summer