"Dying/Is an art, like everything else,/I do it exceptionally well." However, the reader might wonder, if she does it so well, why has she failed three times?In verse paragraphs 16 and 17, she describes how "exceptionally well" she does it. Then the bell jar distorted vision kicks in full throttle when she says, after coming back "'A miracle!'/That knocks me out./There is a charge."
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: October Poet
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This sonnet has the "when-then" structure of many of the sonnets. The speaker says that when something happens, then another thing follows it. In this sonnet, in the first stanza, the speaker's "when" clause consists of a looking back on his life: "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought/I summon up remembrance of things past." The "sessions of sweet silent thought" refer directly to the times that he is musing about a poem.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 30
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In the third quatrain, the speaker again introduces a new metaphor: this time he compares his ebbing life to a fire that "on the ashes of his youth doth lie." His youth once burned brightly, but now his flame is dwindling, and the very things that fed his youth's flame are being consumed by the low-burning fire of old age.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 73
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