Sonnet 3 The poet urges the young man to reflect on his own image in a mirror.In the other, though still himself subject to the ravages of time, his child’s beauty will witness the father’s wise investment of this treasure. In the first, the young man will waste the uninvested treasure of his youthful beauty. Sonnet 2 The poet challenges the young man to imagine two different futures, one in which he dies childless, the other in which he leaves behind a son.The young man’s refusal to beget a child is therefore self-destructive and wasteful. Only if they reproduce themselves will their beauty survive. Sonnet 1 In this first of many sonnets about the briefness of human life, the poet reminds the young man that time and death will destroy even the fairest of living things.
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