Sonnet 9
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| Sonnet 9
by William Shakespeare |
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Sonnet 9 is another of Shakespeare's procreation sonnets. In it, he reasons that if the young man remains single so that he does not make a widow, he is wrong because if he dies the entire world will in effect be a widow, crying over the fact that he did not leave a child behind, or a copy of his beauty. To Shakespeare, a widow will always have the image of her children to console her after her loss.
- Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die.
- The world will wail thee, like a makeless wife;
- The world will be thy widow and still weep
- That thou no form of thee hast left behind,
- When every private widow well may keep
- By children's eyes her husband's shape in mind.
The sonnet ends with a scathing declaration that if the young man does not marry and have children, he is committing "murderous shame" upon himself.
- No love toward others in that bosom sits
- That on himself such murderous shame commits.
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