Term Papers on Sonnet 73

Term Paper Title	Sonnet 73
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	1.69

Sonnet 73

Although at first glance this sonnet appears to be about death, it is, like the majority of Shakespeare’s poetry, about love. As is typical in his work Shakespeare has kept to the traditional sonnet form of 14 lines, all in iambic pentameter, and is arranged in three quatrains with a closing couplet. Its rhyme scheme is ab ab cd cd ef ef and gg.

The most powerful imagery within the sonnet is that which describes the passing of time, giving the poem an almost palpable aura of pathos. From the outset, Shakespeare mixes metaphor within this imagery, and while the illustration is of a tree in winter, the reader is in no doubt that the tree is the poet himself.

‘That time of year thou mayst in me behold

When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang

Upon those boughs which shake against the cold’.

The poet uses caesura as well as enjambment at this point to reinforce the images, the commas after none and few creating powerful pauses, while Upon follows so naturally after hang as a single breath. The final imagery within this quatrain is that of the deserted choir, abandoned by even the birds, perhaps a metaphor for the poets’ feeling of imminent abandonment by the poems intende...

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