Sonnet Number One

This is the first sonnet that is written to the young boy.
It is thought that Shakespeare is paid to write these sonnets to the boy,
convincing him to have children. He starts off saying that people want more of what’s
beautiful. As an old man dies, the man has children who carry out his memory.
The speaker tells the boy that the boy is interested in his own beauty and doesn’t
care to share it with anyone else. The speaker tells the boy that he is wasting
his beauty because of the fact that he doesn’t share it. The boy is told to
make a child so that the memory of his loveliness is not forgotten. I think
that the parents of the boy have told the boy many times that they want him to
have kids, but he doesn’t listen to them because no kids listen to what their
parents suggest. I think that the parents use Shakespeare as a way to get to the
boy as another source of convincing him to have children.