This is made even worse by the fact that the youth is the only source that he’s able to take pleasure from. He is briefly overly sated and then he is starved for the sight of the youth. In the final quatrain of ‘Sonnet 75,’ the speaker says that there are moments where he feels too full from “feasting” on the youth’s sight. Perhaps this could put things into perspective, make him feel more confident, or less greedy. The “filching age,” or someone from the thieving times that the speaker lives in, is going to take what’s his.įrom moment to moment the speaker goes between thinking that it’s better that he loves the youth alone to thinking that it would be “better” if the “world” could see his “pleasure”. One moment he is proud of what he has (the youth) and the next he is making himself miserable over it. In the second quatrain, he goes on to say that as a “miser” he is constantly moving between the worry that someone is going to “steal his treasure” and the general enjoyment of it. He sees himself as a miser, someone who hoards money and worries over it constantly. In the next lines, he adds that peace is not something that comes easy to him. The second line adds on another simile that his need is the same as the grass’s need for rain. His need is compared to the way that living things need food to survive. In the first lines of ‘Sonnet 75,’ the speaker tells the Fair Youth, who has continually exposed his admiration for and devotion to, that he needs the young man. Shakespeare concludes the poem by adding that this is made all the worse by the fact that the love they share is his only source of happiness. At one moment he’s confident and happy in his wealth and at another, he’s desperate for more, unwilling to let a penny out of his sight. The speaker is greedy for the youth, like a miser. Throughout this poem, the speaker describes for the youth how he sees their relationship. ‘Sonnet 75’ by depicts the speaker’s uncontrollable obsession with the Fair Youth.
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