The Use Of Time In Poetry: Milton, Shakespeare, Wordsworth

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English

 

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Timothy K

 

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April 20, 2017

 

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In Shakespeare's Sonnet LXXIII, the poet is an older man comparing his life to such things as night and day, the four seasons, and as a fire in a fire. Shakespeare uses these images to show us just how quickly time passes. I found his representation of life as the cycle of day and night particularly insightful...
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I found his representation of life as the cycle of day and night particularly insightful. "In me thou see'st 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." To Shakespeare, dawn is the birth of a child, mid-day is a child's youth, and twilight, his current stage, is the stage of life when death is approaching, although it has not yet arrived...
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