Analysis of Sonnet 3 Look in the mirror and tell the face you see Now is the time for that face to form another, whose new repair if now not renew, deceive the world, unless some mother. For where is she so beautiful whose undiscovered womb disdains the work of your breeding? Or will it be the tomb of his self-love to stop posterity for those who are so fond of him? You are the mirror of your mother, and in you she recalls the beautiful April of her flowering; So through the windows of your age you will see, despite the wrinkles, this golden age of yours. But if you live, remember that you are not, die celibate, and your image dies with you. Shakespeare begins this sonnet by telling him that he should realize, due to his aging, that it is time to bear a child, because if he does not, he deceives the world, mother earth, who then becomes an unblessed mother. “Mother” also refers to the mother of the future child, who has not been blessed by the lack of a child. 5-6: 'What part of her, physical or emotional, prevents you from fertilizing her womb through procreation [an act that comes with marriage]?' 7-8: '(If not for this reason), are you so narcissistic that you would take the end of your family to the grave?' It also refers to the mother of the future child: she is not blessed with the lack of a child. 9-10: 'You are a reflection of your mother, and she sees her youthful beauty in you.' 11-12: 'You will see, through the memories of your past, that these are your golden years.' The couplet summarizes the three quatrains by saying: "You will be remembered only during your lifetime and not posthumously; for if you die without heirs, all memory for your future generations fades'.