Shakespeare’s Sonnet 60: Time and Lasting Beauty
A brief analysis of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 60: Time’s power and the immortality of beauty.
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The speaker spends the majority of the poem using personification to describe time as a force that gives and then takes away. It chooses to destroy all of that which it once created.
Time leads even the best of nature into destruction, corrupting a pure brow with wrinkles.
In the last lines, the speaker says that no matter what time tries to do, his writings are going to survive forever, and therefore, so too will the youth’s beauty.