Sonnet 73

by William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 73 Questions and Answers

What does the speaker in Sonnet 73 compare himself to? What do each of these comparisons have in common? 

What is the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 73?

What is the rhyme scheme and meter of Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare?

What does "on the ashes of his youth doth lie" mean in Sonnet 73?

Death's Second Self

According to Shakespeare, how is autumn characterized?

Describe in detail the imagery of Sonnet 73 by Shakespeare.

What message is Shakespeare trying to convey in Sonnet 73?

Why does the poet call black night death's second self?

Write a thesis statement on Sonnet 73.

What do lines 12&13&14 from sonnet 73 by Shakespeare mean? In line 12 please completely explain meaning and about line 13 about "perceivest" refer to what? and line 14 "love" to what?

Describe the poetic elements of Sonnet 73. What imagery and symbolism does Shakespeare use, and what is the central theme of the work?

What is the main argument of the poem Sonnet 73? With which three tools does the author prove this argument?

What is the meter of Sonnet 73?

Write a 100-word essay response to the following: How does Shakespeare introduce us to his implied listener in "Sonnet 73," and why is this significant to this sonnet and to the sonnet form in general? Consider the following keywords: final couplet, lover, Shakespearean Sonnet, quatrain, rhyme scheme, and surprise.

What is Sonnet 73 talking about?

What time of year is the speaker using as a metaphor for his own age, mood, and appearance in lines 1-4 of Sonnet 73?

What is the interpretation and meaning behind Shakespeare's Sonnet 73?

What lesson does William Shakespeare offer to the addressee of Sonnet 73?

What is the theme for Sonnet 73, and is it universal or parochial?

Scan the lines provided from Sonnet 73. Mark the syllables, separate the feet with short vertical lines, and indicate the rhyme scheme. That time of year thou mayst in me behold ____ When yellow leaves, or non, or few, do hang ___ Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, ____ Bare ruined, choirs where late the sweet birds sang _____

What is a brief explanation of Sonnet 73?

Describe the imagery in Shakespeare's Sonnet 73.

How do I analyze diction in a poem? Maybe you can help by using Sonnet 73 as an example.

What do the 3rd and 4th lines of Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 mean?

What is the rhyme scheme for "Sonnet 73" by William Shakespeare?

Please explain specifically the kind of love that Shakespeare was talking about in Sonnet 73.

Through the usage of "twilight," the poet repeats that he is approaching the night of his life. What image does he use in the next stanza?

How could a student write a letter to Shakespeare about Sonnet 73?

What conceit does the speaker set up in the first quatrain of Sonnet 73?

In Shakespeare's Sonnet 73, who is the implied listener, and why is it important to the sonnet and to the sonnet form?

These are interpretive questions. Please add quotations when answering the questions and make your answers at least 250 words for each question. 1. In the first line of "Sonnet 73," the speaker uses a time of year as a metaphor for his age. The metaphor continues throughout the entire stanza. What time of year is he describing? Why is it an appropriate metaphor for the speaker's age? 2. In the second stanza of "Sonnet 73," the speaker switches metaphors and says that his lover sees "the twilight of such day . . . which by and by black night doth away." What are twilight and night metaphors for? 3. Identify one metaphor in the poem above that we have not yet discussed. Why do you think the poet chose to make this comparison? 4. Identify one simile in the poems above that we have not yet discussed. Why do you think the poet chose to make this comparison?

Can you help me about sonnet 73 written by William Shakespeare? I can not understand meaning of lines 5 and 8. And what is the meaning of "death's second self"?

Is this line from Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 in trochee? Or is it in iambic pentameter? This thou perceiv'st which makes thy love more strong.

In Shakespeare's sonnet 73, what observations can you make about the word order Shakespeare chose?