![]() ![]() ![]() Sonnet 3 The poet urges the young man to reflect on his own image in a mirror.In the other, though still himself subject to the ravages of time, his child’s beauty will witness the father’s wise investment of this treasure. ![]() In the first, the young man will waste the uninvested treasure of his youthful beauty. Sonnet 2 The poet challenges the young man to imagine two different futures, one in which he dies childless, the other in which he leaves behind a son.The young man’s refusal to beget a child is therefore self-destructive and wasteful. Only if they reproduce themselves will their beauty survive. Sonnet 1 In this first of many sonnets about the briefness of human life, the poet reminds the young man that time and death will destroy even the fairest of living things. ![]()
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