Contemplates the separation and values of the soul and body to one who loves you. Shakespeare asks his beloved, as though in mid-conversation, not to be upset when death arrives and carries him off. His life will continue to some extent in...See moreContemplates the separation and values of the soul and body to one who loves you. Shakespeare asks his beloved, as though in mid-conversation, not to be upset when death arrives and carries him off. His life will continue to some extent in these lines, which his beloved will always have to remember him by. In the future, when this poem is reread, the youth will see again the precise thing that was so dedicated to him- Shakespeare's spirit. He says the earth can only take his body, the earthly part of him. But his spirit, the better part, is the youth's to keep. Shakespeare looks down on his body, mere worm-food, so easily killed, because what gives his body its worth is the spirit it contains, and that spirit is this poem, and this poem will remain with his beloved. Written by
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