![]() ![]() Helen Vendler, however, feels that the speaker is planning to commit suicide, and after reading it with this in mind, I’m inclined to agree with her. One of the sources on reserve (I completely forgot to take information on which book was which, sorry!) makes an interesting note, that “the expected term of life is threescore and ten (70) years” and with sonnet 71 comes “thoughts of death.” (522) This statement implies that the speaker’s death is a natural one, which is how I originally read the sonnet as well. ![]() Instead of trying to get the beloved to remember him after he is gone, or to have the sonnet live on as his legacy, the speaker explicitly tells his beloved to forget about him. ![]() Shakespeare’s sonnet 71 is interesting because it doesn’t approach death in the way we are used to in the sonnets. ![]()
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