The coming of quietus that is so definite, along with the melancholy about the end of the speaker's life, the beauty of life we leave behind, and the despair that revelling in our youth brings, leads this poem to one illation: What are we living for? If all roads lead to the same place, what is the point of living? Shakespeare evinced that his speaker lived for love, a power that the subject of his poem believed could overcome death. To truly live, we must truly love while we still have the time, as death comes more rapidly than we would think. Shakespeare put the strife, apprehension, and consternation a human being may experience before demise on the page, and this animates his words. The speaker almost seems real: he struggles with the same struggles that we do, questions the same things we do. Somehow, in this poem, Shakespeare captured emotion, and emotion is the essence of what it means to truly be
The coming of quietus that is so definite, along with the melancholy about the end of the speaker's life, the beauty of life we leave behind, and the despair that revelling in our youth brings, leads this poem to one illation: What are we living for? If all roads lead to the same place, what is the point of living? Shakespeare evinced that his speaker lived for love, a power that the subject of his poem believed could overcome death. To truly live, we must truly love while we still have the time, as death comes more rapidly than we would think. Shakespeare put the strife, apprehension, and consternation a human being may experience before demise on the page, and this animates his words. The speaker almost seems real: he struggles with the same struggles that we do, questions the same things we do. Somehow, in this poem, Shakespeare captured emotion, and emotion is the essence of what it means to truly be