shakespeare sonnet one

shakespeare sonnet one


Sonnet I

Sonnet I

FROM fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content
And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding.
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.
The poem by William Shakespere is about a guy who doesnt want to reproduce and have a child he is a handsome guy but he doesnt want to share his beauty with the world. How can he share his beauty with the world if he thinks he is to young to have have kids or doesnt want to have any kids.


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