Sonnet 73

The speaker compares his age to the season of fall in this sonnet. He is saying that you can see that late autumn season in him where the trees have no leaves and the birds no longer sing. He uses “black night” to symbolize death in the second quatrain. His youth is dying and old age is this awful thing taking over. Little by little, the speaker is dying. I really like the last couplet because it is saying to love even more what you know you will lose before long. The message that it sends is to be happy with what you have because it’s not going to last forever.