In "Sonnet 73", the speaker uses a series of metaphors to characterize what he perceives to be the nature of his old age. Sonnet seventy-three is not simply an order of interchangeable metaphors; it is the story of the speaker slowly coming to grips with the finality of his age and his impermanence in time. Whether or not he is the subject of the sonnet or an observer, he expresses everything as if he were the subject. Shakespeare’s way of reflecting the onset of aging and death is expressed through many literary techniques like theme, imagery, and wordplay. The significant points that reflect the onset of aging and death are portrayed through the metaphors of a tree at the end of autumn and a dwindling fire.
In the first quatrain, the sp
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