Sonnet Number 99

This sonnet it more like a love sonnet even though the
speaker is saying that the boy isn’t beautiful anymore. Throughout the sonnet
the speaker blames the flowers for stealing the beauty of the boy for themselves.
By saying the flowers stole the boys’ beauty;
the speaker says that the boy is the most beautiful creature and also the creator
of the flower’s beauty. Without the boy, the flowers would not be beautiful. They
took the smell, softness, and color form the boy. Form this sonnet, it made me
believe the boy is sick. The color of the boy was said to be stolen by the
flowers. Usually when people lose their color, it means that they are sick and
have a pasty complexion. They would also not smell that great because the fact
that they are sick and unable to do much because they are weak. The speaker
also mentioned that the roses were standing which could represent how the boy may
be so weak that he cannot stand.