...73 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. Friedrich Rückert, Rätsel (Lösung: verwesen) Es ist mehr als Veralten und soviel als Verwalten;...

...l7 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. When Shakespeare says, "Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang," he does so in the larger...

...again. 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. These lines are not the statement of a problem awaiting solution; they are, rather, a statement of...

...that the focus is indeed 'choirs'. 2.4(ii) VVhen 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. But when we consider the poem as a whole we learn that the autumnal boughs are themselves metonyms...

...mayst in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang Upon those boughs which sha\e agata st the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet...birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day, 5 As after sunset fadeth in the West, Which by and by blac\ night doth ta\e away, Death's second self...

...AGE That time of year you 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. —Shakespeare, Sonnet LXXIII I HAVE MADE NOTE of the fact that Teresa of Avila lived a long life by...

...But that wild music burdens every bough, And sweets grown common lose their dear delight. Therefore, like her, I sometime hold my tongue, Because I would not dull you with my song. 103 Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth, That having such a scope to show her pride, The argument,...

...(501) 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 the next century, Jonathan Swift generalized sardonically on surviving to old age: (502) "Every man...

...But that wild music burdens every bough, And sweets grown common lose their dear delight. Therefore like her I sometime hold my tongue, Because I would not dull you with my song. 102 3 bare - links with pride (line 2) which means 'rich dress' and poverty (line I ) which implies...

...LXXIII That time of year them 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,...birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such a day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second...