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You look at me and you see late fall, twilight and a dying fire; that is, you realize that I'm getting old and you'll lose me soon, and that makes you love me more. (Sh was about 28 when he wrote this.) The point is that he imagines what images he presents to his friend. To analyse the poem look at the details (EXACTLY what does he say about fall, etc?) and what emotional elements they suggest. For example, the autumn section pictures a tree "where once the sweet bird sang." What does he accomplish emotionally by calling attention to the absence of birds? A sense of lost vitality? of loneliness? Do that with every detail.Posted by Hamlet on March 20, 1997 at 09:25:56
In Reply to "Interpretation of Sonnet 73 PLEASE!!" posted by Jennifer Bangert on March 19, 1997 at 19:25:09
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