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How Does Shakespeare Present Death In Sonnet 73

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Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 indisputably illustrates death. Shakespeare uses the Fall season to represent death and fading away. In depicting fall he casues the reader to picture withering away. In this sonnet the poet is attempting to prepare his young friend for death. Not his literal death, but the death of his youthfulness prior to adulthood.
In the third quatrain of this sonnet Shakespeare references a fire. “In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire.” (9) This fire is said to represent Shakespeare’s youthfulness. Burning bright with energy, as does a teen. Although he writes that as the flame slowly dies, so does he. Shakespeare also uses a sunset as imagery representing the bright burning flame. Shakespeare writes that his youth hood
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