Shakespearean 2

sonnet 73 Sonnet 73 has lyric poem of fourteen lines with a formal rhyme scheme. Each line of the poem are expressing different aspects of a single thought, mood, or feeling, and finally resolved in the last lines two lines of the poem. The poem is figuring a person who realizes that his time is short, and he is about to die; then, knowing his condition, he expected that his friends should love him even more. Through …

…Even though the first three quatrains is talking about the death, the poem is ended with a happy ending. As an old man in the first three quatrains, he talks nothing but his death. At the end in the caplet, he gives a new insight how he views his death. His desired to be loved by his friends has changed his view about death from negative side to positive side by relating it with love.