Rough night with little sleep, the little princess has some cough that keep causing her to through up when laying down which meant a lot of her sleeping in our arms and cleaning messes sheets. Hopefully she feels better soon. Today is starting off well, since she’s only sleeping for about 20 minutes at a time right now I opted to record my podcast with her in the room, we made it. The weather is warming up, I’m planning to plant my Spring trees tomorrow and get baby chicks the day after that. Beyond that it’s routine, water the plants, study books, and clean the babes.
Shakespeare’s sonnet 9 argues that if the young man refuses to marry for fear of someday leaving behind a grieving widow, he is ignoring the worldwide grief that will be caused if he dies single.
Who knew Shakespeare was so based, this is why we read Shakespeare and other classics. People don’t know what the greatest writings of humanity say and think they know everything.
Let’s Wreck his written.
*First “for fear to wet a widow’s eye” some good alliterations, saying afraid to get married and leave a widow crying after his death.
*”thou consum’st thy self in single life” because of this fear the man will spend all his time being single. Consum’st thy self, seems like self indulgence, instead of sharing life with another, he is consumed by his own.
*”if thou issueless shalt hap to die, the world will wail thee like a makeless wife” A logical statement, if he happens to die issueless, not being issued a kid, then the world cries like a makeless wife. Makeless, a widows that didn’t make children.
*”the world will be thy widow and still weep, that thou no form of thee has left behind” The man didn’t want to make one woman a widow and Shakespeare is saying that his decision to remain single makes the whole world his widow weeping, and no form of thee left behind is children.
*”every private widow well may keep by children’s eyes, her husband’s shape in mind” By marrying and having children the woman can see in the features of the child, such as eyes, the memory of her husband. That is better than disappearing without a trace.
*An unthrift in the world doth spend, shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it” Unthrift is the man being stingy with his life. Shifts but his place is to say he doesn’t buy anything, just moves around, which the world enjoys moving money.
*Next line, “but beauty’s waste hath in the world an end, and kept unused the user so destroys it.” Wasting beauty is not entering into a relationship and having kids. Kept unused, remains single, the user destroys it. They destroy their genes and family history.
*”No love toward others in that bosom sits” In the beginning the man is saying it’s out of compassion for the widow that he doesn’t marry and Shakespeare after making his argument calls out the man, that’s not the case, he has no love towards others.
*“that on himself such murd’rous shame commits.” The act the man saw as compassionate is shameful and in a sense murders all those that came before and are connected to him.
For grizzy I’m going to point out how each segment relates to God because he wasn’t seeing it. The church is for the children, God said be fruitful and multiply, so far all of Shakespeare’s sonnets have been geared towards fulfilling God’s command.
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