Sonnet 18

This poem is when Shakespeare brings in a little bit of the creep. As before Shakespeare is telling the young man that he can indeed live forever, that his beauty can live on. However in this poem Shakespeare is saying that he can live on through his poems' and that the young man need not procreate. It sounds as if Shakespeare has taken a liking to the young man, but I feel as if it is not in a fatherly way. I think that Shakespeare, after talking up the young man's beauty, has started to see it himself through the eyes of his own poems. By talking of the young man's beauty Shakespeare has come to be mesmerized by his own words and the words that he writes about the young man. Shakespeare is so impressed by his own writing that he is entranced by it. I think that this is whats happening in this poem and that Shakespeare is beginning to see the young man in new eyes.