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Concetti Chiave

  • The poem reflects on the passage of time, using vivid imagery to depict the transition from day to night and youth to old age.
  • Shakespeare uses natural elements like trees and seasons to symbolize life's cycle, emphasizing the inevitability of aging and decay.
  • The central theme is the relentless nature of time, which spares no beauty or vitality, highlighting the transient nature of life.
  • The concluding couplet suggests that procreation is the only way to defy time's destructive power, creating a lasting legacy.
  • The sonnet employs a progression of metaphors, moving from the simplicity of a clock to the complex imagery of harvest and death.

Indice

  1. Riflessioni sul tempo
  2. Interpretazione del primo quartetto
  3. Significato del sonetto

Riflessioni sul tempo

When I do count the clock that tells the time,

And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;

When I behold the violet past prime,

And sable curls, all silver'd o'er with white;

When lofty trees I see barren of leaves,

Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,

And summer's green all girded up in sheaves,

Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard;

Then of thy beauty do I question make,

That thou among the wastes of time must go,

Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake,

And die as fast as they see others grow;

And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence

Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.

Interpretazione del primo quartetto

In the first quatrain:

  • Time rappresent the nature
  • The day rappresent tha young people
  • The night rappresent the old people

Shakespeare, William - When i do count the clock that tells the time articolo

Significato del sonetto

The sonnet's meaning is contained, as is usual in Shakespeare, in the final rhymed couplet: nothing can oppose time's destructive power except marriage and procreation. vita ed opere di William ShakespeareThe first two "When"-quatrains describe the passing of time in a progression that from the image of the clock-dial in line 1 reaches the more elaborate metaphor of lines 7-8. The images became images of death for the passing of time. To counteract death's levelling action, anex life needs to be created.

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