Short Essay: 50 points
3-400 words (a page and a half – two pages, double-spaced, font of 12). Please submit this as a Word document. Canvas does not receive Pages. Organize your essay into five paragraphs with an introduction, conclusion and one paragraph each for the three metaphors.
Instructions:
Read this Sonnet by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 73
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 ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
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.
In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the death-bed whereon it must expire
Consumed with that which it was nourish’d by.
This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
The text selects this sonnet as an example of a poem structured around metaphors. How does the text define metaphors? How can we differentiate a metaphor from a simile? How old is the narrator of the sonnet? How does the imagery express this? How do the twilight, sunset and the black night represent the stages of a man’s life? Why is fire compared to a man’s youth? What life lesson does the narrator take from the thoughts expressed here. Cite specific lines from the poem and interpret them