William Shakespear
... trees. This lets the reader feel a sense of death. He uses a metaphor by stating, “That time of year thou mayst in me behold” to indirectly tell the reader his age without stating it plainly. Therefore he must be of old age, since autumn represents the coming of winter and the coming of an end. The metaphor gives us feeling and understanding of the theme the poem carries. He then goes a little deeper into death, by jumping from the length of a season, to the passing of a single day. He describes the sunset fading in the west, and how sleep is something second to death. He said’ “Which by and by black night doth take away” describing how night and sleep take away from our lives. Also stating, “In me thou see’st the twilight of such day” to remind the reader about the coming of death. With night, he describes that it seals up the rest of the day and takes it away. The third metaphor goes even quicker, describing the few seconds when the burning ember fades away into ash. This is most definitely the best example in the poem describing death. As the burning ember represents the last bit of life with light and then turning into dark ash. As he quotes on line eleve...