Question

What major theme does the final couplet introduce into the sonnet?

Answer 1

Old age is the major theme which the final couplet has introduced into the sonnet. A person should express his love in his life before the time comes to an end. The writer has strongly contemplated to spend life fully before the time checks out.

Explanation:

• The sonnet addresses the youth in context of the three quatrains which shows metaphors:

1. The Autumn
2. The passing of a day
3. the dying out of a fire

• The author talks about how each passing day affects human's life and how the leaves of a tree sheds
• Perhaps, the sonnet is about how someone feels of getting older and how they feel about it.
• it is the story of the speaker who slowly comes to the subject of the real finality of his age and his impermanence in time.