Question Home |
Position:Home>General - Arts & Humanities > HELP! Shakespeare poem...?Question: HELP! Shakespeare poem...?TO me, fair Friend, you never can be old, Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
I believe he is saying that he believes that his friend is still as beautiful as he was when he first saw him three years ago (li 1 - 8); however, he recognizes that beauty may fade without him ever noticing (li 9 - 12). So, "for fear of which" (meaning, he's afraid it might be true that he can't tell that his friend is in fact aging), he addresses those to come - those whose ages have not yet been bred, or concieved - and says that before they are ever born, beauty has failed, i.e. that his friend was most beautiful and they will never get to see it. |