KSEEB Class 10 · English (1st language) · KTBS Revised 2024-25
That Time of Year
Chapter summary, hard words and model exam answers for Karnataka Board Class 10 English.
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About the author
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), England's greatest dramatist and poet. "That Time of Year" is Sonnet 73, comparing the poet's aging to late autumn, twilight and a dying fire - urging the beloved to love more strongly while time remains.
Summary
The speaker tells a younger beloved that his age can be read in nature images.
The speaker tells a younger beloved that his age can be read in nature images.
Bare branches or few yellow leaves hang on boughs - summer's choir is silent.
Bare branches or few yellow leaves hang on boughs - summer's choir is silent.
Day fades like a weak sun after sunset; black night takes the place of light.
Day fades like a weak sun after sunset; black night takes the place of light.
Glowing embers lie on ashes that will consume the flame - youth's fire sinks.
Glowing embers lie on ashes that will consume the flame - youth's fire sinks.
Knowing the speaker must soon leave, the beloved loves more fiercely and well.
Knowing the speaker must soon leave, the beloved loves more fiercely and well.
Awareness of mortality deepens true affection rather than ending it.
Awareness of mortality deepens true affection rather than ending it.
Hard words & meanings
| sonnet | fixed-form poem of fourteen lines, often about love |
| metaphor | figure comparing aging to autumn/twilight without like |
| twilight | light after sunset before night |
| bough | main branch of a tree |
| choir | here, birds that sang in summer branches |
| ember | glowing piece of coal or wood in dying fire |
| consumption | process of being used up - fire eaten by ashes |
| mortality | condition of having to die |
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