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This poem is urging a young man to marry and produce offspring. The reason the speaker gives to the man is that because the man has been given such a gift of beauty by nature, he owes it to...
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In Sonnet 4, Shakespeare uses money or banking imagery to symbolize wasting one's youth on selfish pursuits instead of marrying and having children. The speaker admonishes the listener to...
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