Sonnet 73

Many sonnets written by William Shakespeare deal with tragedy, love and death, in sonnet seventy-three he focuses on death along with the signs of aging. Whether or not he is the topic of the sonnet or an observer, he expresses everything as if he were the topic. Shakespeare was at an age in his life where he could relate to the sonnet, which made the poem so much more effective. The subject of this sonnet …

…piece. Imagery was expressed to represent the sonnet successfully. The images Shakespeare created make the sonnet more interesting and easier to comprehend and relate. The wordplay was creatively sited to represent something similar to its meaning. This sonnet can be made into one of tShakespeare’s famous plays but he has isolated it to be fifteen lines, and very effective due to the theme, imagery, and wordplay that is expressed and displayed throughout the sonnet.