Re: Sonnet 73 (READ THIS FIRST!) -- Shakespeare's Sonnets

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Date Posted: 12:10:42 03/16/03 Sun
Author: zack anderson
Subject: Re: Sonnet 73 (READ THIS FIRST!)
In reply to: Mrs. G. 's message, "Sonnet 73 (READ THIS FIRST!)" on 14:54:56 01/02/03 Thu

>After reading & paraphrasing Sonnet 73 on your own,
>explain the following:
>
>1. How does Shakespeare's diction (word choice)
>convey the season?Shakespeare's diction conveys the season because it is winter and he uses words like cold, death,long,black nights. All these words make you think of winter. Death because you think of hunger and being cold like the winter.
>
>2. Why are time and season are significant in this
>sonnet? The time and season are significant in this sonnet because with the season, winter, my opinion is that he is talking about his lover and how she/he sees him as his/her light in the darkness, which relates to winter and how you need a light to see or find your way.With the time, it is significant because with the sunset part you know the day is running out of time and in a sense so is the man in the sonnet. Death is drawing near and the life that once nurished him is now consuming him with death. And that is what makes their love stronger, the knowledge that death is drawing near.
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Re: Sonnet 73 (READ THIS FIRST!) -- Mrs. G., 13:21:51 03/18/03 Tue