February 15, 2022 • 49 secs
An oration by James Louis Steed of the 6th of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets published in 1609. This sonnet is the sixth of the author's "Fair Youth" and "procreation" sonnets. Again, we see winter as a metaphor for aging as Shakespeare warns the fair youth about the prospect of growing old and dying before bearing children. In fact, there is a mathematical formula presented in this sonnet calculating just how happy the young man could be based off of the number of children he has!
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