![]() ![]() ![]() His beauty shall in these black lines be seen,Īnd they shall live, and he in them still green. The poet has journeyed from the assertion in Sonnet 1 that the world will “desire increase” from beautiful people like the Fair Youth, to his pledge to write or “engraft” him “new” a theme that appears again and again in the sonnet sequence. Sonnet 15, however, brings a new development, that of the preservation of the young man’s beauty through poetry rather than procreation. Picking up the astrological metaphor in Sonnet 14, the speaker asserts that it is the stars decide our fates. ![]() There is an implication that our lives are pretence, just as the stage is an illusion - implying that the pretence we cling to is that beauty will last. Using a metaphor that appears in Shakespeare’s plays, he likens the world to a “stage” and our lives mere performances, which like plants have a brief duration. The lifespan of plants is brief, they decay rapidly, so this is a reason to reproduce or propagate new plants. In Sonnet 15 he uses the imagery of plants and growth. Shakespeare continues his praise of the beauty of the Fair Youth. ![]()
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