Date Posted:23:17:47 03/19/03 Wed Author:Brittany Lavine 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 by describing things that you would relate to late autumn or early winter such as yellow leaves, dead trees, and cold weather.
2. Why are time and season are significant in this
sonnet? (1 paragraph response)
The time and season are significant in the sonnet because they are being used to describe the character. He says that if a person looked in him they would see a season. The particular season that he insinuates they would find happens to be around the time of late autumn or early winter. Many people relate this time of year to death because it involves death of plants and some animals and because the cold, harsh weather is bitter, much like the thought of death. In saying that people would see in him a season with such a morbid connotation as death, he raises the thought in his readers that he is either deeply depressed and relates this depression to a death-like state, or, in fact, is close to death himself. Basicly, the season and time are bringing the entire poem together by describing exactly how the writer feels and what is going on in his head. The season is almost the entire poem, without the time and season, this poem would not have the same meaning.
