LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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Passing time
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The time of year
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The fear of abandonment
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The understanding that the speaker has little time left
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Detailed explanation-1: -Like many of Shakespeare’s first 126 sonnets, it is a love poem that is usually understood to address a young man. The poem uses natural metaphors of decline and decay to grapple with the onset of old age, and ultimately suggests that the inevitability of death makes love all the stronger during the lovers’ lifetimes.
Detailed explanation-2: -The main theme of “Sonnet 73” is aging. Aging is inevitable and natural, but that does not mean that it is a negative aspect of life.
Detailed explanation-3: -What is the speaker suggesting when he says “That time of year thou may’st in me behold when …” He is suggesting that he possesses some of the qualities associated with autumn, probably old age, the approach of death.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sonnet 73, one of the most famous of William Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, focuses on the theme of old age. The sonnet addresses the Fair Youth. Each of the three quatrains contains a metaphor: Autumn, the passing of a day, and the dying out of a fire.