The youth has to do this because the world that is wise may see the youth mourning “Lest the “wise world” should look into your moan and just as they may mock the poet after death, they will also mock the youth in the same way “And mock you with me after I am gone. Sonnets 71-74 are usually grouped together and are linked by the poets thoughts on his own mortality. Sonnet 134 Is Shakespeare Shakespeare Summary and Analysis Sonnet 71 Summary In this and the next three sonnets, the poets mood becomes increasingly morbid. “But let your love even with my life decay,” He tells him to look upon the poetry when he is in his tomb or coffin, “When I perhaps compounded am with clay” the youth should not speak his name and his love for the poet should die with the poet’s death. As a continuation of sonnet 71, Shakespeare portrays the theme of love and loss. He tells the youth that when he reads this poem, “The hand that writ it” do not remember the hand that had written it because the poet loves him “for I love you so” a lot and he does not want the youth to make his memory part of his sweet thoughts “That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, “as it will make him sad Shakespeare Sonnet 71 Analysis, No longer mourn for me when I am dead. The poet implores to the fair lord not to mourn for him “No longer mourn for me” when he is dead “when I am dead longer” than youth shall hear “Than you shall hear” the hears the funeral bells “surly sullen bell” which warn the world “Give warning to the world” that the poet has escaped it “that I am fled” to live with worms “as his dead body will soon be decomposing in its grave wildest worms to dwell” But let your love even with my life decay,

Shakespeare Sonnet 71 Modern Text (Translation)

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