 | Carl R. Hausman - Philosophy - 1989 - 264 pages
...l7 That time of year thou mayst in me behold when yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. When Shakespeare says, "Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang," he does so in the larger... | |
 | Virginia Sloyan - Christian poetry - 1990 - 172 pages
...again. That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs where late the sweet birds sang. These lines are not the statement of a problem awaiting solution; they are, rather, a statement of... | |
 | Richard P. Blackmur - Literary Collections - 1989 - 312 pages
...lines two through four: When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shakes against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang . . . The reader will remember that the second quatrain is an image of sunset fading into dark and... | |
 | Eva Feder Kittay - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1990 - 376 pages
...that the focus is indeed 'choirs'. 2.4(ii) VVhen yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. But when we consider the poem as a whole we learn that the autumnal boughs are themselves metonyms... | |
 | Francis L. Gross, Toni Perior Gross - Religion - 1993 - 320 pages
...AGE That time of year you mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare, ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. —Shakespeare, Sonnet LXXIII I HAVE MADE NOTE of the fact that Teresa of Avila lived a long life by... | |
 | William Gerber - Life - 1994 - 312 pages
...(501) That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In the next century, Jonathan Swift generalized sardonically on surviving to old age: (502) "Every man... | |
 | George Dickie - Philosophy - 1996 - 169 pages
...LXXIII That time of year them mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs,...birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such a day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second... | |
 | Judith H. Anderson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 372 pages
...73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare [ruin'd] choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. Here a tree or trees, symbolic illustrations of a time of year and time of life, are only synechdochized... | |
 | John D. Rayner - Religion - 1997 - 260 pages
...begins: That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang . . . (No. 73) And that, too, is the dominant theme of the book of Kohelet. It is an autumnal book,... | |
 | Ralph McInerny - Fiction - 1998 - 590 pages
...saw Frawley lean forward when he recited the much-cited lines of the Shakespeare sonnet: Upon these boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweetbirds sang. Of course he did not leave it there. The signs of hope were not welcomed by all, but... | |
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That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. 
