Sonnet 55

This particular sonnet didn’t appear at first in the way it did for sonnet 30, where the speaker seemed infatuated with the reader. For a while the speaker almost seems to be praising himself, for being responsible for keeping the reader alive even after his imminent death. But then it is noticeable of how no longer does the speaker believe that the reader must procreate in order to remain immortal and beautiful, all he has to do is nothing, because the speaker will write the poetry about him that will secure his immortality. It also appears as if the speaker wants future readers to see the way the speaker adores the reader as an example of how they should adore their lovers.