Sonnet 73 Love, Death, And Immortality Through Words

Sonnet 73: Love, Death, and Immortality Through Words Shakespeare’s sonnets portray a multitude of different emotions during different times of the narrator’s life. In Sonnet 73, Shakespeare’s main emotion is sadness because he is aging and will soon no longer be able to write the poetry about the person he is talking to throughout the sonnet. While he has many different kinds of poems with different emotions, his theme of this love for this person comes across throughout many of them. He seems to want to continue to immortalize this person, and the love he has for them. Throughout the poem, he is actually trying to look at himself through objectively, and in this see what this person that he loves might see. During this analysis, I would like to argue how this theme is conveyed sonnet, while analyzing the different aspects of it. To start off the analysis, I will look at the structure of the poem itself. It is in iambic pentameter, as all shakesapearian sonnets are. It has 3 quatrains, and it ends with a couplet. This works well with what the narrator is talking about, because as he changes quatrains, he compares his situation from a larger thing to a smaller thing. For example, he starts off with a season in the first quatrain, and then heads into a time of day. The meaning of this will be talked about later in the paper, but summarize, it starts off as life starting off as a big deal, but as it decays, it becomes smaller and smaller until it disappears into death.Show MoreRelated Acceptance of Loss of Time in Sonnet 73 and When I have Fears2195 Words   |  9 PagesLoss of Time in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 and Keats’s When I have Fears that I May Cease to Be  Ã‚     Ã‚   Time spent fearing the passage of time wastes the very thing that one dreads losing. Both Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 and Keats’s When I have Fears that I May Cease to Be reveal the irrationality of this fear and explore different interpretations of this theme: to Keats death equates an inability to reach his potential, to accomplish what he desires; to Shakespeare death (represented in the metaphorsRead More Eroticism and Mortality in Shakespeares Sonnet 73 Essay1803 Words   |  8 PagesEroticism and Mortality in Shakespeares Sonnet #73 William Shakespeares sonnet cycle is famous with its rich metaphorical style.   The depth of each sonnet comes from its multilayered meanings and images, which are reinforced by its structure, sound, and rhythm.   Sonnet #73 provides an excellent example.   This sonnet shows the speakers agony over human mortality and, moreover, his/her way of coping with it in an effective way.   The speaker, especially in terms of his cognizance of timeRead MoreLet Majorship English4572 Words   |  19 Pagesallegory 4. In the Iliad, whose death brought Achilles much sorrow and grief? A. Patroclus C. Nestor B. Thesthor D. Menelaus 5. Donne’s poems can best be described as _____________________ A. intellectual C. philosophical B. lyrical D. emotional 6. In Zeus’ plan, what is it that comes from suffering? A. The ecstasy of truth C. The certainty of more suffering B. Understanding and progress D. The consolation of death 7. In whose reign was the ChristianRead More9 Poes Feminine Ideal Karen Weekes Poes Vision of the Feminine Ideal Appears Throughout His Work, in His Poetry and Short Stories, and His Critical Essays, Most Notably â€Å"the Philosophy of Composition. † Especially6318 Words   |  26 Pagesof Beauty in all its melancholy extremity is â€Å"the death†¦ of a beautiful woman† and, appropriately, â€Å"equally it is beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover† (ER, 19). The woman must die in order to enlarge the experience of the narrator, her viewer. Poe indulged his â€Å"most poetical topic in the world† by repeating this idea obsessively: poems on the subject include â€Å"Lenore, † â€Å"To One in Paradise, † â€Å"Sonnet – To Zante, † â€Å"The Raven, † â€Å"Deep in Earth,† â€Å"UlalumeRead MoreSummary of She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways11655 Words   |  47 P agesinfused with abstract ideals of beauty, nature, love, longing and death. The poems were written during a short period while the poet lived in Germany. Although they individually deal with a variety of themes, as a series they focus on the poets longing for the company of his friend Coleridge, who had stayed in England, and on his increasing impatience with his sister Dorothy, who had travelled with him abroad. Wordsworth examines the poets unrequited love for the idealised character of Lucy, an English