Sonnet number 2

This sonnet is very interesting and keeps with the recurring theme of many of the early sonnets by advancing the idea that the young man, W.H., must  procreate. The suggestion is made so very compelling as Shakespeare describes aging in strictly negative terms. He talks of winter besieging the young man's brow, personifying time and age as some sort of invader staking claim to the young man's apparently beautiful face. Shakespeare goes on to say in a metaphor, that the young man's face will be comparable to only a weed when he is older, and the negative connotations in that statement are evident. The main idea of the sonnet is introduced as he says that it would be wonderful to be able to say that his beauty lives on in  his child. While this, to me, is nothing similar to immortality, Shakespeare insists that it is, stating that the young man will be able to look at his child and feel the warmth of youth, when in fact he is old and cold. In all Shakespeare is quite persuasive, and it can be assumed that the young man certainly at least considered having a child after having read this.