The gray hair was once fully brown is the same way as how the yellow leaves were once green. The line explains that a few hair strands are left in his once full of hair scalp are turning gray demonstrating that death anticipates him. He is describing his own body as a tree losing its leaves in which he explains, “When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang” (2). In the start of the sonnet Shakespeare utilizes the illustration of autumn to remain for his movement in years. An old man speaks as if he is depressed about his situation but he as the sonnet goes on he becomes enlightened.ĭeath plays a significant role in Shakespeare’s work Sonnet 73. The line is gives a picture where the winter comes as the narrator age is a sign of changing seasons and makes a comparison about his life. Time is used as imagery in Sonnet 73 this is illustrated in the first line “That time of year thou mayst in me behold” (1). The sonnet also utilizes assonance “When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang” (2) the line shows how some trees have all of its leaves while some trees do not have any leaves and a few of those trees have leaves that hang on.
The sonnet utilizes consonance “That on the ashes of his youth doth lie” (10) the words youth and doth have a “th” sound at the end. Sonnet 73 is essentially a standard Shakespearean sonnet meaning it its written with 14 lines in an iambic pentameter that has a rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, efef, gg. The speaker in the sonnet finds out that he has no chance to get out of his inevitable death therefore he should acknowledge his fate. Sonnet 73 altogether clarifies one's mortality and the grieving that makes pathways which at last makes love end. The sonnet is sorted out in a manner that as it advances the reader feels the strength of genuine romance. Feelings of adoration alongside those of get older and passing away are communicated using figurative speech in Shakespeare's work. One of the most famous play writers, William Shakespeare, in one of his works Sonnet 73 deals with the relationship between the process of love and aging.
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