The speaker is attempting to persuade the good looking young man to wed and have kids so that his mind blowing excellence won 't die when he passes on. Furthermore the speaker is also demonstrating the young man 's vulnerability notwithstanding time 's brutal methodologies. The speaker claims, anything that reaches maturity ("riper") will be reduced by time to nothing ("decrease"). The sonnet as a whole can be encapsulated under the theme of the ravages of time, as a one-line summary of its content might be made thus: "Have a child now, beautiful man, because the clock is ticking; don 't be selfish."
Raleigh 's poem "The Nymph 's Reply to the Shepherd" is a witty and elegantly composed answer to Marlowe 's more guiltless "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love". Utilizing comparative pictures and measurements, Raleigh cunningly exhibits the fairy 's reality exhausted reaction to the shepherd 's new and virtuous perspective of affection. In Sir Walter Raleigh 's poem the speaker contends that affection, much like nature, rots and get to be less important with the progression of time in light of the fact that time is an unceasing process. The nymph 's reacts to the shepherd 's proposal "come live with me and be my love" (1) by saying everything he