Summary
The theme or meaning of this poem is basically immortality. It discusses the immortality of the writer, his lover, and their love for each other. Neither war nor the hatred of the world destroy their love. She will shine more radiantly in this poem than stones and monuments of princes. With time all worldly possessions shall turn to dust, but their love will live on. Together they will cheat the certainty of death. She shall live in the eyes of everyone who reads this poem.Everything will be destroyed and forgotten except the subjects of this sonnet. The subjects will forever be remembered and honored.
Unusual Words
sluttish: untidy.
broils: battles.
enmity: hatred
masonry: the building of structures from individual units laid in and bound together
broils: battles.
enmity: hatred
masonry: the building of structures from individual units laid in and bound together