2015年7月31日 · Sonnet 9 The poet argues that if the young man refuses to marry for fear of someday leaving behind a grieving widow, he is ignoring the worldwide grief that will be caused if he dies single, leaving behind no heir to his beauty.

Read Shakespeare’s Sonnet 9, also known as ‘Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye’, with a deep dive analysis into the poem.

Read Shakespeare's sonnet 9 with a modern English version: "Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye" Is it because you fear to make a widow grieve, that you waste yourself in bachelorhood?

Sonnet IX. Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye, That thou consum'st thy self in single life? Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die, The world will wail thee like a makeless wife; The world will be thy widow and still weep That thou no form of thee hast left behind, When every private widow well may keep By children's eyes, her husband's shape ...

Actually understand Shakespeare's Sonnets Sonnet 9. Read every line of Shakespeare’s original text alongside a modern English translation.

Sonnet 9 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a procreation sonnet within the Fair Youth sequence.

Sonnet 9. Lady that in the prime of earliest youth, Wisely hast shun'd the broad way and the green, And with those few art eminently seen, That labour up the Hill of heav'nly Truth, The better part with Mary, and with Ruth, [ 5 ] Chosen thou hast, and they that overween,

Sonnet 9 directly challenges the fair youth to have children before he dies. One of Shakespeare's procreative sonnets (1-17), this is a powerful (almost painful) plea urging marriage, to set aside fear, suggesting lack of love for others and the world.

SONNET 9. Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye That thou consumest thyself in single life? Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die, The world will wail thee, like a makeless wife; The world will be thy widow and still weep That thou no form of thee hast left behind, When every private widow well may keep By children's eyes her husband's shape in ...

In this sonnet, the speaker continues to urge the Fair Youth to marry and father children. He speculates whether the young man refuses because he’s afraid that when he dies he will leave a widow.