Analysis In Sonnet 3, beauty remains until the grave: through a child beauty becomes immortal.

William Shakespeare uses metaphoric language and assonant rich diction to tell a dear friend of the pressures to preserve their image through bringing a new face into the world. Metaphors are used like the potential mother will have an uneared womb and he disdains the tillage of their husbandry. These agricultural references are used to say their attractiveness would be appealing to a woman whose womb bares nothing. The individual is also told their mother Calls back to the lovely April of her prime, expressing her recalling when she was as young and beautiful as her child. The phrase Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest, reflects the common use of vowels in Shakespeares diction, and reflect beauty into the poem just as the individuals face brings beauty to the world. Though the message is blunt, the sounds use to put it across slide pleasingly off the readers tongues. Furthermore, the individual is faced with the facts that their beauty will not remain once they grow old and their body rots in the ground. The only way to preserve their splendor is by allowing it to live on in another. Not only is the individuals lonely state unfair to themself, the author tells them it is selfish towards the mother who cannot bare their offspring. This childless being is left thinking, whether they really wishes to live their life with just their well sculpted shadow.