Sonnet 18

I believe the speaker is saying in this sonnet that the person whom he is writing to may grow old and lose their beauty, but as long as this sonnet(s) pay tribute to their beauty, that beauty will never die. The sonnet will give life to the reader long after they are deceased, simply because people will still continue to read about that person. In this sonnet it is interesting how death is personified, and I like how the speaker says that even if death has taken someone, if their memory lives on in some way, as it does in this sonnet, then death cannot brag that it is in control of the deceased person, because they still remain alive in some way.