William Shakespeare, 1609
Sonnet 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Summary:
The speaker hopes that the young man does not spend a long time mourning for him. To not feel sorrow, not even for his death. The speaker tells him to stop loving him after his death or people would use it against him.
* My favorite part is when he tells the young man to stop feeling sad when the bells are done ringing.
Shakespeare uses imagery to enhance this poem. He says "vile world with the vilest worms to dwell," to represent the speaker's corpse leaving this world and going onto the new one. What this would be taken to mean is that "vile" is the world he lived in for many years and the "worms" are his new 'life,' where he is now laid to rest.














