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A Lesson by
Love While You Can
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,
Bare ruined choirs when late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou see'st the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie
As the deathbed whereon it must expire,
Consumed with that which it was nourished by.
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• First quatrain addresses things of the earth (leaves, boughs, birds)
• Second quatrain addresses the change of light (twilight to sunset to black night)
• Third quatrain addresses the “actual act of dying and disintegration—the fading out of life’s energies” (Esterman 11)
• The connection between all three images, according to Esterman, is that they represent three elements: earth, air (light), and fire
Just as trees lose their leave in autumn, the sun sets in the west at the end of the day, and a fire eventually extinguishes, so too will I die. Truly knowing this, you will be more able to love, and to love more strongly because nothing lasts forever.
What do you think is the connection between the three images in the three quatrains?
In light of the sonnet in its entirety, what does death mean to the poet?
The poet does not introduce love into the sonnet until the couplet. Why do you think he does not introduce it earlier?
· Sonnet 73 is addressed to the young boy, also known as “the youth”
· The poet and youth’s love should increase because it will inevitably end
· “Death provides the speaker with an occasion to argue that the love between the two should increase; and the consolation for death is that it will strengthen their love before death occurs” (Stockard 484)
Do you agree with Stockard’s interpretation that it is the love between the poet and the youth that will strengthen? If so, why?
If you do not agree with Stockard’s interpretation, what does the youth love that will be strengthened?
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Esterman, Barbara. "Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 73'." Explicator
38.3 (1980): 11. Web. 23 Apr. 2015.
Stockard, Emily E. "Patterns of Consolation in
Shakespeare's Sonnets 1-126." Studies in Philology 94.4 (1997): 465-493. Web. 23 Apr. 2015.