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## Sonnet 73 **Write a brief note on man vs time from Sonnet no 73?** - Shakespeare’s Sonnet appeared in 1609 when it was published by Thomas Thorpe. It announced the Sonnet to be never before imprinted although Sonnets 138 and 144 had been published previously in the passionate pilgrims. - Sonnet...

## Sonnet 73 **Write a brief note on man vs time from Sonnet no 73?** - Shakespeare’s Sonnet appeared in 1609 when it was published by Thomas Thorpe. It announced the Sonnet to be never before imprinted although Sonnets 138 and 144 had been published previously in the passionate pilgrims. - Sonnet 73 is written according to the English Shakespearean type including three quatrains and one couplet. - Sonnet 73 is structurally formatted into three quatrains rhymed a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f and couplet rhymed g-g following the quatrains. - As discussed in the introduction, the Shakespearean Sonnet takes its stylistic format from the Earl of Surrey’s variations introduced to the Italian form of the sonnet, divided into an octave and sestet. - The first quatrain of Sonnet 73 gives a clear picture of the season Autumn - as the symbol of old age. - The second quatrain describes the twilight after sunset, swallowed up by the night. This again is symbolic of the approach of death. - The third image is that of a fire that is almost dead, a brilliant conceit worked out to act as a symbol of death being fed by life. This picture of tree in Autumn is one that suggests the feelings of old age. “When yellow leaves, or none, or few” reminds of the image of tiredness in Macbeth.