Analysis of Sonnet 1 From fairest creatures we long to grow, that thereby the rose of beauty should never die, but as the ripe should in time die His tender heir might bear his memory : But thou, contracted to thy own bright eyes, feed the flame of thy light with self-substantiating fuel, creating a famine where plenty lies, thyself thy enemy, too cruel for thy sweet self: you who are now the fresh ornament of the world and only herald of the showy source within your bud bury your contents, and then, little thoughtless one, waste yourself in greed: have pity on the world, otherwise this glutton will be - to eat what it gives him it is owed by the world, for the grave and for you. As the first sonnet, it is the first in a sequence of sonnets on procreation that are addressed to a man as an argument for having children. The image of flowers emerges in this sonnet as we see beauty represented as a rose. 1-4: 'We want to breed with the most beautiful people, so that beauty remains [in life], but since the eldest dies due to time, his son will most likely remember him.' (Time can be read personified as in the other sonnets). There is an idea of ​​the offspring resembling the parents; so it is no wonder why we desire either the "increase" of aesthetic pleasure or the "increase" of heirs from the most beautiful. Line 7 gives the reader the idea that this man, because he has not yet had children, is making his mistress's fertile womb sterile, thus making himself an enemy of himself. 11: 'bury your happiness in the bud (of the rose), [with the rose alluding to beauty], but beauty cannot produce happiness'. Shakespeare chastises him for this as he feels like he is wasting his mistress's fertile womb.