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Analyse how Shakespeare portrays his attitudes and beliefs in Sonnet 73
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... Analyse how Shakespeare portrays his attitudes and beliefs in Sonnet 73 In Sonnet 73, Shakespeare's explores the themes of death, autumn, time, life and love. The sonnet is split up into three quatrains and a rhyming couplet. The first quatrain depicts autumn and the time structure is of months, the second depicts twilight and the time structure is of hours and the third depicts the dying fires and the time structure is of minutes. As this is the sonnet 73, it is autobiographical from an unnamed man. Shakespeare starts the first quatrain with the declarative line "that time of year thou mayst in me behold". The demonstrative pronoun "that" suggests a specific time of year and shows that the persona is looking back upon his life. The transitive verb "behold" suggests that he is looking with himself and self-reflecting. Shakespeare portrays imagery of nature in the second line, he uses the modifier













