Read the second quatrain of “Sonnet 73,” and then answer the questions.



What is the best paraphrase of these lines?



What is the central idea of these lines?

Respuesta :

The question is incomplete and the full version can be found online.  

Answer:

  • I am like a day at twilight, slowly becoming dark.  
  • The speaker is getting older.

Explanation:

Out of the options provided, the one that best paraphrases the second quatrain of “Sonnet 73,” by William Shakespeare is the one where the speaker compares himself to a day at twilight because the sonnet is about mortality and death. The ideas about the day, the sun, and the darkness are a metaphor for life and the proximity of death that comes with getting old, not a reference to the beauty of Twilight or how much better vision people have during the day.