Sonnet 30

I believe in this sonnet we see a sort of shift in the way the speaker addresses the reader. In the first few sonnets we read, the speaker is trying to convince the reader to reproduce. Now it appears as if the reader is the object of the speaker’s affection. The entire sonnet is quite sad, until we reach the couplet, when the speaker mentions that if they think of the reader, they regain all that they had lost, and are no longer sad. Most people don’t tell just any old person that they are the only reason that they are happy. And I take back what I said earlier, I don’t believe that the speaker is in love with the reader, I believe that the speaker is infatuated with the reader.