Shakespeare talks a lot about winter in his sonnets, this one in particular. The first line creating the sound of a ticking clock is a warning sign for me. If the boy doesn’t have children he will grow old and watch “the brave day sunk in hideous night”. It is clear that old age wasn’t considered pretty in that time. The parents of this young man are going out of their way to prevent him from ever getting old. In the literal sense that may not be possible but if you think about it, it is. They have a live in poet who reads these poems to their son, convincing him to have children. Desperate calls for desperate measures. If he has children he won’t ever enter old age because of his looks, maybe even his personality, will be in the child and therefore he will never truly grow old. A young face, similar to his own, might ease the minds of his parents. Is that what this is all about? The idea of the young man pro-creating gives them a knowing that their son will live another 40 years.
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