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William Shakespeare is a very famous poet who writes about what he is experiencing. He writes mostly about love and has influenced many people around the world.
SONNET 22
LINES 1 & 2
My glass shall not persuade me I am old
So long as youth and thou are of one date
I won’t believe my mirror when it tells me I’m old, as long as you’re still young
1 My glass shall not persuade me I am old
2 So long as youth and thou are of one date;
3 But when in thee time’s furrows I behold,
4 Then look I death my days should expiate.
5 For all that beauty that doth cover thee
6 Is but the seemly raiment of my heart,
7 Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me.
8 How can I then be elder than thou art?
9 O therefore, love, be of thyself so wary
10As I, not for myself, but for thee will,
11 Bearing thy heart, which I will keep so chary
12 As tender nurse her babe from faring ill.
13 Presume not on thy heart when mine is slain;
14 Thou gav’st me thine not to give back again.
glass=mirror
date=age
“But when in thee time's furrows I behold, then look I death
my days should expiate,” the speaker is saying that when the young man starts to age, or as Shakespeare puts it ,“time’s furrows,” he will be okay with dying and paying for what he has done during his life supported by,” Look I death my days should expiate,” with expiate meaning that he will make up what bad things he did in life in the “other life”.
Lines 5,6,7 & 8
The next four lines are talking to the handsome, young man about how beautiful he is but that they share beauty in their hearts so why is the speaker older than the young man? “For all that beauty that doth cover thee Is but the seemly raiment of my heart, Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me: How can I then be elder than thou art?” The speaker believes that because he has as much internal beauty as the young man’s external beauty, then he should be as beautiful outside as well as inside.
furrows= wrinkles or lines in skin
expiate= make amends