Time is free but it is priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it then you can never get it back. Time is the one occurrence in life that we can never quite modify to suit our pleasures. Time is incredibly critical and the importance of it is showed in Shakespeare 's sonnet 1 and Sir Walter Raleigh 's "The nymph 's reply to the shepherd." Even though we all choose how to utilize our time, in Shakespeare 's sonnet 1 the speaker urges the young man to beget children as a demonstration of insubordination against time. He contends that the young man might now be beautiful however over time his excellence will blur. As per the sonnet 's speaker, reproducing guarantees that our names
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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
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