Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare. Introduction William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor. He was born on 26th April 1564 in Stratford-Upon-Avon. In the poem, Shakespeare invokes a series of metaphors to characterize the nature of what he perceives to be his old age. Lets study the poem In the first quatrain, he tells the beloved that is age is like a "time of year", late autumn, when the leaves have almost completely fallen from the threes, and the weather has grown cold, and the birds have left their branches. in the second quatrain, he then says that his age is like late twilight " as after sunset fadeth in the west ", and the remaining light is slowly extinguished in the darkness, which the speaker likens to " death's second life " in the third quatrain, the speaker compares himself to the glowing remnants of a fire. which li...
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