how is the autumn season Characterized in Sonnet 73
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Explanation:
“Sonnet 73” was written by the English poet and playwright William Shakespeare. Though it was likely written in the 1590s, it was not published until 1609. Like many of Shakespeare’s first 126 sonnets, it is a love poem that is usually understood to address a young man. The poem uses natural metaphors of decline and decay to grapple with the onset of old age, and ultimately suggests that the inevitability of death makes love all the stronger during the lovers’ lifetimes. Like Shakespeare’s other sonnets, it departs from the earlier, Italian sonnet structure and rhyme scheme and follows the Shakespearean sonnet form.
“Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold” Summary
When you look at me you must see that time of year when yellow leaves, or no leaves, or just a few leaves, hang on tree branches that shiver in the cold. In me you see deserted church choirs, which used to hold singing birds but are now bare. You see twilight in me—the part of the day when the sun has set in the west, and the darkness of night slowly takes over. Night is a shadowy version of death, because death will one day permanently close the eyes that are now temporarily closed in sleep. In me you can see the glow of a dying fire that rests on its own ashes like a deathbed, since the fire will eventually burn out upon the remains of the wood that once fueled it. You see all this, and seeing it makes your love stronger. You love me more knowing that I will die soon.