Lesson:
We performed our poems. If you were absent, write a page analyzing the poem below for meaning, form, and sound. You will also need to make up your poem or do another poem to receive credit for today's assignment.
That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73)
by William Shakespeare
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 ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
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 all up in rest.
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire,
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the deathbed whereon it must expire,
Consumed with that which it was nourished by.
This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
HMWK:
Analyze Sonnet 73. Type a one page analysis
Bring favorite poems to class. We will be picking poems for solo performances!
