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Shakespeare Sonnet 6
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Theme
The theme is that Shakespeare practically begs young men to not die without children so then their children can keep the men`s legacy alive.
Literary Devices
Rhyme Scheme- ABABCDCDEFEFGG
Rhyme- Ex. "deface & place, distill`d & kille`d,art & depart, etc.. "
(iambic pentameter)
Personification- Ex. "Then let not Winter's ragged hand deface"
(don`t let the rough winter destroy your beauty)
Imagery- Ex. "If ten of thine ten times refigur'd thee"
(ten children will inherit the men`s beauty)
Repetition- Ex. "self"
(lines: 4,7,9,13)
Symbolism- Ex. "Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface. In thee thy summer, ere thou be distilled."
(the winter, symbolizing old age and summer symbolizing the young)
Translation
Do not let the cold winter old age destroy your summer beauty. Make some woman pregnant and pass on your beauty before it dies with you. But if you lend a woman your body, she’ll happily pay you back with a child. Having a child is making another version of yourself that will make you happy. Having ten children will make you ten times happier. What would death have on you if you left children behind to keep your legacy living? Don’t be selfish and don`t let death conquer you just to be eaten by worms.
Sonnet #6
Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface
In thee thy summer, ere thou be distilled.
Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place
With beauty’s treasure, ere it be self-killed.
That use is not forbidden usury
Which happies those that pay the willing loan;
That’s for thyself to breed another thee,
Or ten times happier, be it ten for one.
Ten times thyself were happier than thou art,
If ten of thine ten times refigured thee.
Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart,
Leaving thee living in posterity? Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair to be death’s conquest and make worms thine