Acceptance of Loss of Time in Sonnet 73 and When I have...

Acceptance of Loss of Time in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 and Keats’s When I have Fears that I May Cease to Be Time spent fearing the passage of time wastes the very thing that one dreads losing. Both Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 and Keats’s When I have Fears that I May Cease to Be reveal the irrationality of this fear and explore different interpretations of this theme: to Keats death equates an inability to reach his potential, to accomplish what he desires; to Shakespeare death (represented in the metaphors of autumn, twilight, and ashes) will separate him from earthly, physical love. Through various rhetorical strategies and content of sub-themes, these authors ultimately address their struggle with mortality and time; their†¦show more content†¦The empty boughs are Bare ruin’d choirs where late the sweet birds sang, symbolic of the happier time of the past and the inevitable death of the future. The second quatrain is an extended metaphor comparing time passing and twilight. In me thou see’th the twilight of such day... The twilight, which occurs when the personified black night doth take away the sunset, suggests fleeting time as a thief who robs the speaker of life (Vendler 335). Helen Vendler explains that ...the day would still be here if black night did not gradually take away the light and seal all up (335). The speaker seems to fear the passage of time because it is taking away his youth. Shakespeare continues to use his extended metaphor to create a feeling that youth is getting farther and farther away; twilight is later in the day than its parallel form the first quatrain, autumn, is in the year. he second quatrain ends as twilight ends, with night and sleep, but Shakespeare’s word choice here is almost more important than the line’s actual meaning. He uses the phrase Death’s second self o mean sleep, and personifies it as seal[ing] up all in rest. Through his use of the word death, Shakespeare creates a parallel between what death does and what sleep does; death also seals up all in rest. Further, seals up can be used to mean enclosing in a coffin or of stitching up the eyes... [The second possible meaning] is now usually speltShow MoreRelatedFigurative Language and the Canterbury Tales13472 Words   |  54 Pagesalliteration: repetition of initial consonant sounds. It serves to please the ear and bind verses together, to make lines more memorable, and for humorous effect. †¢ Already American vessels had been searched, seized, and sunk. -John F. Kennedy †¢ I should like to hear him fly with the high fields/ And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land. -Dylan Thomas, â€Å"Fern Hill† 3. allusion: A casual reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature, often withoutRead MoreSummary of She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways11655 Words   |  47 Pageswhile others see her as a fictitious or hybrid character. Most critics agree that she is essentially a literary device upon whom he could project, meditate and reflect. The Lucy poems consist of Strange fits of passion have I known, She dwelt among the untrodden ways, I travelled among unknown men, Three years she grew in sun and shower, and A slumber did my spirit seal. Although they are presented as a series in modern anthologies, Wordsworth did not conceive of them as a group, norRead MoreInstructor’s Manual Fundamentals of Financial Management60779 Words   |  244 PagesWorld Wide Web at: www.pearsoned.co.uk Previous editions published under the Prentice-Hall imprint Twelfth edition published under the Financial Times Prentice Hall imprint 2005  © 2001, 1998 by Prentice-Hall, Inc.  © Pearson Education Limited 2005 The rights of James C. Van Horne and John M. Wachowicz JR. to be identified as authors of this work have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988. ISBN: 0 273 68514 7 All rights reserved. Permission is herebyRead MoreCrossing the Chasm76808 Words   |  308 PagesCROSSING THE CHASM. Copyright  © 1991 by Geoffrey A. Moore. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means,