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" That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth... "
Earth Prayers: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations from Around the World - Page 320
by Elizabeth Roberts, Elias Amidon - 1991 - 480 pages
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William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury ; As I Lay Dying

Nicolas Tredell - 1999 - 214 pages
...somewhat in the manner of Shakespeare's sonnet 73 [lines 5-8 of this sonnet run: 'In me thou sees! the twilight of such day /As after sunset fadeth in the west, /Which by and by black night doth take away/Death's second self, that seals up all in rest'.41]. More important, however, is the extent to...
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The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems

Frances Mayes - 2001 - 548 pages
...those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset...away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire, That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the deathbed...
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The Sonnets

William Shakespeare - 2001 - 212 pages
...those boughs which shake against the cold, 4 Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day As after sunset...west, Which by and by black night doth take away, s Death's second self that seals up all in rest. In me thou seest the glowing of such fire 16 That...
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The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem

Shira Wolosky Weiss - 2001 - 248 pages
...the day, and then, in the third quatrain, a single moment. What time is it in the second quatrain? "The twilight of such day / As after sunset fadeth...west, / Which by and by black night doth take away." The poem takes two and a half lines to tell us what time it is. But even so, we really aren't sure....
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A Clearing in the Forest: Law, Life, and Mind

Steven L. Winter - 2003 - 446 pages
...structure, often configured in conven* Familiar examples are the lines from Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 ("In me thou seest the twilight of such day / As after sunset fadeth in the west"); the famous soliloquy in Macbeth, act 5, scene 1, spoken by Macbeth just before his death ("Out, out,...
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Metaphor: A Practical Introduction

Zoltan Kovecses - 2002 - 303 pages
...everyday conventional thought). Let's take the following lines from one of Shakespeare's sonnets: In me thou seest the twilight of such day As after sunset...away, Death's second self that seals up all in rest. These lines combine at least five everyday conceptual metaphors: LIGHT IS A SUBSTANCE, EVENTS ARE ACTIONS,...
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The Wisdom of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 pages
...those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day, As after...away, Death's second self that seals up all in rest. In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire, That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed,...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 21

Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 244 pages
...those boughes which shake against the could, Bare rn'wd quiers, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twi-light of such day, As after Sun-set fadeth in the West, Which by and by blacke night doth take away, Deaths second selfe that seals vp all in rest. In me thou seest the glowing...
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Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry

Anthony Hecht - 2003 - 334 pages
...those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day As after sunset...away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou seest the glowing of such fire That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed...
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The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics

Jerrold Levinson - 2005 - 844 pages
...those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset...away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire, That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed,...
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