![]() ![]() Leese* but their show their substance still lives sweet. Sap checked with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone,īeauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where.Ī liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,īut flowers distilled, though they with winter meet, ![]() To hideous winter, and confounds him there, The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell Those hours, that with gentle work did frame Sonnet 5 is a wee bit subtler than some of the other poems because of the seasonal metaphor on which it relies. Most of the poems praise the young man's good looks, and several of them remain appearance-focused, with a take-home message that boils down to "don't deprive the world of your beauty have a kid, who will likely be beautiful as well, so your beauty (and in some cases, memory) can live on." Like most of the first 17 sonnets, this one focuses on the notion that the youth ought to procreate in order to leave the world with a tangible reminder of himself. KellyrfinemanToday's selection is from the portion of Shakespeare's sonnets known as the Fair Youth sequence.
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