Is Death Really the End? An analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnets

By closely analyzing 1 or 2 of Shakespeare's "Procreation Sonnets" (#1 - 17), delineate the nature and complexities of one of the major themes of the Procreation Sonnets. Death is inevitable. No one can escape death as all succumb to it. Time slowly passes; people age, and eventually die. One is often forgotten after death unless they have left something behind or accomplished great feats. In the Sonnets #1-19 by William Shakespeare, he writes of a beautiful man who …

…apparent. Not being able to fully sway the handsome man to procreate, Shakespeare creates his own method of capturing the young mans elegance. Knowing that the man's youth will be consume by time, and will later succumb to death, Shakespeare managed to hold captive the man's essence through art. Shakespeare, William. "Sonnets" inThe Norton Anthology of English Literature The Major Authors, ed. MH Abrams. (7th ed. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc. 2001), 1 - 19