Shakespearean Sonnet 73 AnalysisIn Sonnet 73, it is conveyed that death consumes all: the speaker comes to terms with the fact that one's time is not forever and through this, one learns how to love well. Using a somber tone, dramatic imagery, and harsh, cold diction, the speaker acknowledges the fact that his life will soon come to an end.The speaker compares life to the seasons. By using phrases such as "yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang," he compares himself to a tree, and implies that he is aging--that the fall of his life is turning into winter. Winter, being the end of the year, represents the last season of his life.As the speaker shifts the focus from aging to death, "Black night" is personified to "take away" his life. In the line, "consumed with that which it was nourish'd by," the speaker is referring to the Earth, which provided food and nourishment for him, and when he dies, his body will be buried in it.The speaker is dying, and ultimately he and his lover must accept this reality. He realizes; however, that the fact that his death is nearing only makes his lover's passion for him stronger. Through this, the poet may be revealing that when something is almost lost, we learn to love it more.