Sonnet 73

1. What is the main theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 73?

A) Nature
B) Love
C) Youth
D) Old age

2. How many quatrains are in Sonnet 73?

A) Four
B) Two
C) Five
D) Three

3. What is the rhyme scheme of Sonnet 73?

A) ABC ABC DEF DEF GG
B) ABBA CDDC EFFE GG
C) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
D) AABB CCDD EEFF GG

4. What poetic meter is used in Sonnet 73?

A) Dactylic dimeter
B) Anapestic hexameter
C) Iambic pentameter
D) Trochaic tetrameter

5. Which metaphor is used in the first quatrain of Sonnet 73?

A) Winter
B) Autumn
C) Fire
D) Twilight

6. What does the second quatrain's metaphor focus on?

A) Spring blossoms
B) A dying fire
C) Autumn leaves
D) The passing of a day

7. In the third quatrain, what does Shakespeare compare life to?

A) A blooming flower
B) A dying out of a fire
C) A flowing river
D) The rising sun

8. What is the significance of the final couplet in Sonnet 73?

A) It introduces a new theme unrelated to aging.
B) It describes the beauty of nature.
C) It emphasizes the strength of love despite impending loss.
D) It shifts focus to the Fair Youth's future.

9. Who is addressed in Sonnet 73?

A) A beloved mistress
B) The Fair Youth
C) An unnamed friend
D) Shakespeare himself

10. What does Barbara Estermann argue about the speaker's comparison in Sonnet 73?

A) The speaker compares his life to a river.
B) The speaker compares his youth to eternal spring.
C) The speaker compares himself to the universe through aging and dying.
D) The speaker compares his love to a summer's day.

11. What does Seymour-Smith describe in the first quatrain?

A) A comparison between fire and water.
B) A metaphor involving ruined arches and naked boughs.
C) An image of a rising sun.
D) A description of a blooming garden.

12. What does Barbara Estermann say about the second quatrain?

A) It compares life to a blooming flower.
B) It describes the beauty of autumn leaves.
C) It talks about the joy of summer.
D) It focuses on the change from twilight to black night.

13. What does Carl D. Atkins remark about the third quatrain?

A) Life begins anew with each sunrise.
B) Life is eternal and unchanging.
C) Life is compared to a flowing river.
D) Life is extinguished when youth's strength is past, like fire going out.

14. What does John Prince suggest about the sonnet's final line?

A) It implies the listener must leave what they love before long.
B) It focuses on the beauty of nature.
C) It indicates a celebration of eternal youth.
D) It suggests the speaker will live forever.

15. What does Bernhard Frank criticize about Shakespeare's metaphors?

A) They focus solely on the beauty of nature.
B) They emphasize eternal love.
C) They perfectly capture the essence of youth.
D) They are cliché and logically off, but evoke sympathy.

16. How does James Schiffer interpret the final couplet?

A) It focuses only on the speaker's impending death.
B) It introduces a new theme unrelated to aging.
C) It describes the beauty of nature.
D) It merges themes of devotion and enjoying fleeting youth.

17. What is one possible source for the third quatrain's metaphor?

A) Geoffrey Whitney's A Choice of Emblemes
B) William Shakespeare's own diary
C) A modern poetry anthology
D) An ancient Greek text

18. What does Alan R. Young suggest as the likeliest source for the metaphor?

A) An ancient Roman play
B) A contemporary novel
C) Claude Paradin's Devises Heroïques
D) A medieval manuscript

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