Sonnet Number Eighteen

When I first read this sonnet I thought it was really sweet
and was something that I would like to be written about me. Then as I was going
though line by line to understand what every line meant, I realized that the
speaker was talking to the boy. I know the speaker could be anyone but Shakespeare
wrote these to the boy and I thought it was a little weird. He compares the boy
to a summer’s day but says that the boy is lovelier than summer. The speaker says that everything good comes to
an end, talking about summer, but the boy’s eternal summer never ends. I think
he is saying that the boy is always good but he did say everything good comes to
an end. I think the speaker is trying to convince the boy to procreate because if
he does, then the boy’s eternal summer will live on, even if it’s not with the
boy, but it will be with his children.