In what we call a hypertext, I have linked the underlined words to picutres, audio, video, other texts and all sorts of information across the internet to expand the meaning of Shakespeare's Sonnet 73. Hopefully, it will successfully illuminte your understanding of the sonnet through different perspectives and meanings of each hyperlinked word. Students should be able to gain a better grip on Shakespearian language through this excercise, and most of all have FUN with it!
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That time of year thou mayst in me behold |
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When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang |
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Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, |
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Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. |
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In me thou seest the twilight of such day |
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As after sunset fadeth in the west, |
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Which by and by black night doth take away, |
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Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. |
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In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire |
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That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, |
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As the death-bed whereon it must expire |
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Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by. |
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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, |
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To love that well which thou must leave ere long. |
-William Shakespeare
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