This stanza is important to setting the sonnet with concrete, natural images, which allow the reader to understand that the narrator is aware that he will soon expire. The first stanza makes an analogy between the narrator’s old age and the time of year just before winter. The second stanza similarly describes his old age through natural images the second stanza, however, compares his condition to a time of day: “In me thou seest the twilight of such day/As after sunset fadeth in the west,/Which by and by black night doth take away,/Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest” (lines 5-8). The narrator is perceived as a tiny bit of light left in the sky before the darkness erases him. In the first and second stanzas, his death is described as eventual. Yet, in the first stanza, his death could have taken days (or weeks) to come his death in the second stanza seems more urgent. Sonnet 73: That Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold. The importance of nature in Shakespearian poetry is certainly used as a reflection of the speaker’s inner feelings. He describes that he is going to be taken by the night (death), but within an hour or longer.
That time of year thou mayst in me behold. When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang. Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. Sonnet 73 is not simply a procession of interchangeable metaphors it is the story of the speaker slowly coming to grips with the real finality of his age and his impermanence in time. In me thou see’st the twilight of such day. The couplet of this sonnet renews the speaker's plea for the young man's love, urging him to love well that which he must soon leave. Sonnet ‘73’ by William Shakespeare takes us on a journey demonstrating the artistry of the natural world. Sonnet 73 is one of the sonnets known as the sonnets to the Fair Youth.
The sonnet is written in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, efef, gg. The Fair Youth poems are expressions of spiritual love towards a young man. Like the Dark Lady in the latter part of the series of sonnets, the Fair Youth is also an obscure character to whom the poet seemed to love so passionately.
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