Read the following passage:

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 ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.

william shakespeare, "sonnet 73"
which two things are being compared in this passage?

Old age and autumn.

Explanation:

In William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 73", the poet focuses on theme of growing old and dying. The poem has 14 lines, with the quatrains dealing with different stages of a man's aging process.

The given lines are from the first quatrain of the poem where the speaker talks about the "yellow leaves [] which shake against the cold". He uses metaphors to imply to his old age, like the season of autumn where the leaves of trees begin to fall. Thus, the first quatrain gave a comparison of autumn and old age.

not exaxtly

explanation: it depends on the situation like if u do something good there will be good consequences which arent punishments but if you do somthing bad there will be bad consequences which are punishements.

1. negative, complain without fixing anything.

2. she disagrees with them.