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Which two lines in this sonnet use symbolism to describe old age

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The answer is:

And big deep trenches in thy beauty's field,

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Will be totter'd weed of small worth held.

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The deep trenches is a beauty's field is saying that an open field of life and nature soon became trenches from man for war. Therefore is aged.

Will be totter'd weed of small worth held means that the weeds always were alive on the field but now they died because they got old.

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