Sonnet 73: a View of the Inevitably of Aging, and the Approach of Death
Quite possibly the most fundamentally difficult thing for a man to do, is to examine himself, and come to the realization that his time is limited. We get an insight into this struggle in “Sonnet 73” by William Shakespeare. The excerpt of sonnet 73 that we are going to examine is written by William Shakespeare. This particular sonnet from our textbook is 14 lines long. It is a lyric poem. The poem is in iambic pentameter, which is consistent with […]