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:
- The Autumn
- The passing of a day
- 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.
