Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;. Nor will you lose the beauty that you possess;. Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,. When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;.
Because in my eternal verse you will live forever. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,. So long as there are people on this earth,. So long lives this and this gives life to thee. I think we can safely conclude Shakespeare was well aware of his own outstanding genius from the last couplet. My freshmen and sophomores freak when I reveal that Shakespeare wrote this to a young man.
Enter your email address to subscribe to this site and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address. Interesting Literature is a participant in the Amazon EU Associates Programme, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by linking to Amazon. Share this: Tweet. He says that all the beautiful things every fair will eventually become less beautiful declines from the previous state of beauty from fair.
Though the beauty of things declines with time, the beauty of youth i. From this line the tone of the poem has changed. Death will not be able to boast brag seeing the lover wandering under its shade. The speaker personifies death here. The death will never be able to lay hands on his beloved as he is immortal. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. As long as life will go on, his poem will be read by men and women and through his poem, his love will also live.
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