Sonnet 2

I find this sonnet equally as silly as the first, and it seems like the speaker is trying extreme flattery to persuade the reader to reproduce. By telling him how beautiful he is, and how he will still be able to claim that he is beautiful if he spends time and effort raising his own beautiful child, the speaker is attempting to convince him to reproduce. I find this silly because if the reader was to fall for this type of flattery, he would to me appear shallow because his youthful beauty would be the reason he chose to have a child, not because he actually wanted to have a child.