Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare has been often cited as one of the most prominent poems in the Early Modern Tradition, due to the complexity of its images and the emblematic characteristics of its quatrains. The sonnet itself, deals with the subject of aging and the passing of time; it is a marvellous example of the metaphorization of a single object through various scopes. The poem treats with the anxiety experimented by the voice which realizes on the rapid process of aging and develops the theme by the use of several metaphors which slowly increase their level of complexity, to the degree that at the end of the third quatrain, it is almost impossible to point at a specific moment in which something transforms into something different. The speaker of the poem, which has been claimed by some scholars to be the older poet speaking to the younger poet, happens to be quite difficult to locate, as the poem begins with an apostrophe, in which the voice addresses someone else. “That
This is the basic model for tragedy we studied in Literature C . It is true for most classical tragedy, from Oedipus Rex to Macbeth and Star Wars (Episodes I-III), however different authors may modify any number of elements to suit their purpose. Definition of tragedy (from your Edge book): "A play or a fictional narrative about the disastrous downfall of the protagonist, usually because of a flaw in his or her moral character. Though brought to ruin, the protagonist comes to understand the meaning of his or her actions and to accept the consequences. "