Re: SONNET #73 (STUDENTS PLEASE READ!) -- Shakespeare Lessons

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Date Posted: 13:40:44 03/23/03 Sun
Author: Samantha Allen
Subject: Re: SONNET #73 (STUDENTS PLEASE READ!)
In reply to: Mrs. G. (for Mrs. Moya) :-) 's message, "SONNET #73 (STUDENTS PLEASE READ!)" on 20:19:31 03/11/03 Tue

>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)

1. The word choice in Sonnet 73 conveys the season by using imagery. Words such as "yellow leaves" give the image of autumn -- particularly late autumn. The phrase "Yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang" describe a time where the last leaves are falling off the trees -- probably the very last weeks of fall, leading into winter. Other phrases also imply that winter is coming up fast, such as "Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang" and . This phrase gives the image of bare trees that were once filled with singing birds: a characteristic of late fall or winter.

2. Season and time of day are particularly important in Sonnet 73. The entire first part of the poem is a metaphor, using the dying fall to symbolize the author's dying lover. In the next part, Shakespeare uses the phrases "as after sunset fading in the west/ which by and by black night doth steal away" as a metaphor, as well. Just as the begining of winter symbolizes death, so does the begining of night time. In the last part of the poem, it becomes clear that the first parts were symbolizing his lover's aging; "That on the ashes of his youth doth lie/ As the deathbed where it must expire". The season and time of day are very important, because they symbolize the lover's death.

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Re: SONNET #73 (STUDENTS PLEASE READ!) -- Zack Huber, 14:07:19 03/23/03 Sun