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    The document analyzes William Shakespeare's Sonnet 73. It discusses how the poem uses metaphors and figurative language to express sentiments of love, aging, and death. It progresses from images of aging to dying to death and ultimately discusses love. The organization makes a steady progression through these themes and the poem is revealed to be a love poem with images of aging and death.

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    The document analyzes William Shakespeare's Sonnet 73. It discusses how the poem uses metaphors and figurative language to express sentiments of love, aging, and death. It progresses from images of aging to dying to death and ultimately discusses love. The organization makes a steady progression through these themes and the poem is revealed to be a love poem with images of aging and death.

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    The document analyzes William Shakespeare's Sonnet 73. It discusses how the poem uses metaphors and figurative language to express sentiments of love, aging, and death. It progresses from images of aging to dying to death and ultimately discusses love. The organization makes a steady progression through these themes and the poem is revealed to be a love poem with images of aging and death.

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    Sonnet 73

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    The document analyzes William Shakespeare's Sonnet 73. It discusses how the poem uses metaphors and figurative language to express sentiments of love, aging, and death. It progresses from images of aging to dying to death and ultimately discusses love. The organization makes a steady progression through these themes and the poem is revealed to be a love poem with images of aging and death.

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    Poetry is a common medium for people to express love.

    Sonnets are almost always about


    love. William Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 is no exception. Senti-ments of love along with
    those of against and death are expressed through the use of figurative language. The
    poem is organized in such a way that, as it progresses, the reader feels the author
    approaching death as the use of carefully chosen meta-phors that give Sonnet 73 such
    powerful imagery. In the beginning of the poem the author uses the metaphor of autumn
    to stand for his progression in years. Just like the leaves change and fall from the trees,
    the author has changed and lost his youth. The author next states a compari-son of his
    aging to a sunset: In me thou seest the twilight of such day/ As after sunset fadeth in the
    west (lines 05-06). Here sunset represents dying. The next metaphor compares night,
    which occurs after sunset, to death. Which by and by black night doth take away/ Death's
    second self that seals up all in rest (07-08).It is important to note that the author has
    changed his focus from aging, to dying, to death, and narrowed his scope to the close of
    one day (05). In the final quatrain the author speaks of a deathbed of ashes (10-11).
    These ashes can be interpreted as the ashes of his youth. Those ashes had once been the
    fuel of the man's youth, that which provided his youthful energy. But now, they are now
    the place where the dying fire of his youth and strength dwindles to nothingness. It is the
    final couplet of Sonnet 73 that first mentions love. The entire poem is written to someone,
    probably a lover or a loved one. The last two lines, however, seem to appear to sum up
    the relationship: This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong// To love that
    well, which thou must leave ere long (13-14). Here the author is saying that even though
    he is so close to death, the lover still loves him. The author's advanced stage on life
    actually makes the love more strong (13), even though the lover knows that the author
    will not be around much longer. Although the author spends much of the sonnet speaking
    of aging, dying, and death, there is still an element of love. The poem addresses a lover of
    the author through figurative language and metaphors. The organization of the poem
    makes a steady progression from images of aging, to dying, to death, and ulti-mately to
    love. Sonnet 73 is a love poem with images of aging and death.

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