Sonnet 12

I liked this sonnet at first because it didn’t try to convince the reader to have children, until I read the last line, where the speaker kind of snuck in a “have children!”.  I really liked how Shakespeare compared the crops from the summer being carried into a barn (summer) to an old man being carried away to his grave. And even though the sonnet is depressing, it does speak the truth in the fact that nothing young and beautiful on this earth can stay that way forever, it is just the nature of things to live and  then to die.