This sonnet is a lot about how time and the seasons are
related to each other. Shakespeare uses spring to represent growth and birth,
summer to represent youth, fall to represent the elderly, and winter to represent
death. He also uses day as life and night as death. The speaker sees things
that are young grow old and lose their beauty just like all other sweet and
beautiful creatures like the boy lose their beauty. Beauty overtime is lost but other is grown at
the same time. The speaker has doubts about the boy’s beauty and is telling the
young boy that he is beautiful but he won’t stay like that forever. The speaker
is trying to convince the boy that if he decides to procreate and have
children, that his beauty will live on. The only way to defy what time does
(takes away beauty), is to have children and keep the beauty alive.
related to each other. Shakespeare uses spring to represent growth and birth,
summer to represent youth, fall to represent the elderly, and winter to represent
death. He also uses day as life and night as death. The speaker sees things
that are young grow old and lose their beauty just like all other sweet and
beautiful creatures like the boy lose their beauty. Beauty overtime is lost but other is grown at
the same time. The speaker has doubts about the boy’s beauty and is telling the
young boy that he is beautiful but he won’t stay like that forever. The speaker
is trying to convince the boy that if he decides to procreate and have
children, that his beauty will live on. The only way to defy what time does
(takes away beauty), is to have children and keep the beauty alive.
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