Sonnet 1

The first sonnet uses slant rhyme because the words don’t rhyme but they make it sound like they do when it’s read. I don’t really like this because some words just don’t seem to rhyme no matter how you say them. The speaker addresses a man and says that he should be creating life. He wants the man to reproduce so that his beauty will never die. I think he is saying that the man loves himself too much and needs to be less self-consumed and more willing to pass it on to another generation. I like the line “that thereby beauty’s rose might never die,”. It is saying that the man’s beauty will live forever through his own flesh and blood. This sonnet follows the typical English form and starts the series out well.