Read the following excerpt from shakespeare's "sonnet 73" and answer the question.

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 ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang

which simile best restates the central metaphor of these lines?

a. winter choirs are like sweet birds, joyful and full of song.
b. winter limbs are like an empty choir, bare and silent.
c. yellow leaves are like the sun, alive and bright.
d. yellow leaves are like birds in winter, hibernating or dead.

B.Winter limbs are like an empty choir, bare and silent.

The excerpt from "Sonnet 73" does not have a positive connotation. There is nothing to indicate that things are positive, happy, alive, or bright. Therefore, options A and C are not valid choices. The question is about the central metaphors of the lines which means that the answer should be about the thing that is the focus of the lines. What is the focus? The yellow leaves or the winter limbs. The goal of describing the yellow leaves is to show how few there are on the winter limbs. The excerpt then goes on to describe the limbs shaking and comparing them to an empty choir because the birds have all flown south for winter.

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”

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