Sonnet 73 TPCASTT Example
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Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare
Lesson Plans by Kristy Littlehale
“Sonnet 73” is a poignant sonnet for anyone who has sensed time passing too quickly, and the need to hang on to youth and experiences. It uses winter, night, and a dying fire as metaphors for the inevitable approach of Death. This sonnet is excellent to use for literary elements, TP-CASTT analysis, and for a student to connect their own experience of time passing by too quickly.
Acronyms Explained: TWIST + TP-CASTT
By Emily Swartz
Two acronyms to start incorporating with your ELA students are TWIST and TP-CASTT. Both highlight important concepts from the work and will help increase overall literary comprehension!
Storyboard Description
William Shakespeare Sonnets - Shakespeare Sonnet 73 TPCASTT Analysis
Storyboard Text
- T- TITLE
- ?
- P- PARAPHRASE
- C- CONNOTATION
- A- ATTITUDE/TONE
- HERE LIETH W. SHAKESPEARE HE RANETH OUT OF TIME
- S- SHIFT
- T- TITLE
- T- THEME
- The narrator might be talking about a special time of year, or a holiday.
- The narrator is comparing his increasing age to things like fall/winter, twilight/night, and dying embers from a fire. At the end, he says that love and appreciation can increase when time is running out.
- The narrator’s use of metaphor for the seasons, twilight, and a dying fire seem like he is concerned with the passing of time, and with how time has aged him. The lessening of time creates a sense of urgency to love more strongly and cherish things more closely.
- Shakespeare uses words like bare, ruined, fadeth, death, ashes, deathbed, expire, and consumed to invoke images of death and time running out. The words are depressing and somewhat desperate.
- A shift occurs in the final couplet when the narrator points out that the effect of getting older is that one must love the time he has more strongly, and cherish the little things.
- After reading the poem, my prediction about the title was incorrect, since Shakespeare did not focus on a time of year, but discussed the passage of time that leads to death.
- Love strongly and spend your time wisely because you never know how much time is left.
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