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Explain with reference to the context:“Bare ruined choirs, when late the sweet birds sang”

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These lines are extracted from the poem “Sonnet 73 – That time of the year” by William Shakespeare.

In this poem the speaker invokes a series of Metaphors to characterize the nature of what he perceives to be his oldage. In the first quatrain, he tells the beloved that his age is like ‘that time of the year’ – late autum, when the leaves have almost completely fallen from the trees and the weather has grown cold. The birds which sit on the tree branches singing sweetly have abandoned the branches to go warmer places.

This implies that the now the poet is in his old age (Autumn of life) and pretty women have abandoned him similar to the singing birds which have abandoned the trees in autumn.



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