Sonnet 99

This sonnet honestly made me laugh. How Shakespeare scolds the flowers for stealing the young man's beauty is quite comical. Although it is indeed quite clever. Who doesn't want to be told that all the flowers of all the world stole there beauty from you? It makes you smile and grin at the thought, makes you feel all warm inside. I think that in this poem Shakespeare was just pouring out all of what he thinks of the young man. I feel like he wants the young man to truley know how beautiful he is. Shakespeare personifies the flowers by saying that they have no shame in the fact that they stole there beauty. They hold it proud like a claim to fame even though there never as truley beautiful as the young man. I also think that Shakespeare is saying that its better to be the original and unique than to be the copy. I think that this is my favorite sonnet out of all of them because its so different. Usually its your as pretty as a flower, but not in this sonnet. In this sonnet its the flowers stole your beauty.