25. Explain the features of the autumn season as described by the poet William Shakespeare?
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Explanation:
The speaker calls in this poem (Sonnet 73) a series of metaphors about the season of Autumn to distinguish the nature of what he sees as his age.
In the first argument, he tells the beloved of his time as it were "a year's ago," during late autumn, when the leaves had fell off of the forest, the weather cool and the birds having abandoned their nests.
In the second quarter, he then says, his age seems to be like late dwarf time, "as it fades in the west after sunset," and the remaining light gradually fades out in darkness that is likened by the speaker to "the second self of death."
In the third part, the speaker likened to the brilliant remnants of fire that were "on his youth's ashes" — i. e. the clogs of logs that once allowed him to burn — and that soon would be consumed "by what it fed" — that is, would be extinguished while it sunk in the ashes which were created by its own burning.
In the couplet, the speaker tells the young man that he must realize these things, and his love must be strengthened by knowing that when the speaker, like a fire, is extinguished, he is soon to separate himself from the speaker