Analysis of Sonnet 73 Essays -- Sonnet essays

Line 1* - that time of year being late autumn or betimes winter. Line 2* - Compare the line to Macbeth (5.3.23) my way of life/is falln into the sere, the yellow leaf. Line 4* - Bare ruind choruss is a reference to the remains of a church or, more specifically, a chancel, scanty of its roof and exposed to the elements. The choirs formerly rang with the sounds of sweet birds. some(prenominal) argue that lines 3 and 4 should be read wi grand pianot pause -- the yellow leaves shake against the cold/Bare ruind choirs . If we assume the procedural cold modifies Bare ruind choirs, then the image becomes more concrete -- those boughs are sweeping against the ruins of the church. Some editors, however, choose to insert like into the opening of line 4, thus changing the handing over to mean the boughs of the yellow leaves shake against the cold like the jagged arches of the choir stand exposed to the cold. Noted 18th-century scholar George Steevens commented that this image was probabl y suggested to Shakespeare by our desolated monasteries. The resemblance between the vaulting of a Gothic isle sic and an path of trees whose upper branches meet and form an arch overhead, is too striking not to be acknowledged. When the roof of the one is shattered, and the boughs of the other leafless, the comparison becomes more heavy and picturesque (Smith 148). Line 7* - black wickedness is a metaphor for death itself. As black night closes in approximately the remaining light of the day, so too does death close in around the poet. Line 8* - Deaths second self i.e. black night or sleep. Macbeth refers to sleep as The death of individually days life (2.2.49). Line 12* - that i.e. the poets desires. Line 13* -... ...the west, After the sun sets in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Which is soon extinguished by black night, Deaths second self, that seals up all in rest. The image of death that envelops all in rest. In me thou adoptst the glowing of su ch fire In me you can see the glowing embers That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, That lie upon the ashes remaining from the flame of my youth, As the death- merchant ship whereon it must expire As on a death bed where it (youth) must finally die Consumed with that which it was nourishd by. Consumed by that which once fed it. This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, This you sense, and it makes your love more determined To love that puff up which thou must leave ere long. Causing you to love that which you must transgress up before long.