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

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Date Posted: 10:42:50 03/18/03 Tue
Author: Kathryn Williams
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?
>
>2. Why are time and season are significant in this
>sonnet?
>
>
>(1 paragraph response)

Shakepeare's elaborate, almost flowery word choice shows the progression of time--day and even season--throughout the sonnet. The season is introduced as fall in the second line, but 2 and 3 lines down from that he alludes to winter and changing season, and starting on line 6, he moves the time from dusk to sunset, and finally to night.
Both the time and season conveyed by Shakespeare's diction are important in this sonnet because they illistrate the idea of what time really is--change. As the seasons change, and the day changes, so does the man. When "death's second self" comes, the man's youthful past dies as well, and remains only as the ashes under the fire of time. This idea of time and change is the main idea of the poem, and without Shakespeare's diction to illistrate time's flow, he could not have conveyed his idea to the reader.

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Re: Sonnet 73 (READ THIS FIRST!) -- Mrs. G., 13:41:16 03/18/03 Tue
- Re: Sonnet 73 (READ THIS FIRST!) -- Kathryn Williams, 08:19:18 03/22/03 Sat
  - Re: Sonnet 73 (READ THIS FIRST!) -- Mrs. G., 17:08:36 03/23/03 Sun