Topic > Shakespeare's Sonnet 6 encourages caring between...

Caring between parents and children Parents and their children create a certain aspect of love that is special to them. This caring part of love is so powerful that it continues after death. An adult needs to have children before he can feel this love. Shakespeare's Sonnet 6 encourages people to have children so that they can feel the caring aspect of love that can last after death. This poem encourages people to save their money for their children by stating, “That use is not forbidden, usury, which makes happy those who pay.” the voluntary loan; it is up to you to raise another you” (5-7). This statement suggests that people should not try to earn as much money as possible and spend it on themselves while being selfish while doing so. They should save it for their child. He goes on to explain that people who would like to have children and save their money for their children will end up being happier because they will feel this love. He says, “Or ten times happier ten times one, ten times happier yourself will be” (8-9). This suggests that if one wanted to have children that person would be ten times happier than if they did not have them. If people follow these tips, the love between a parent and their child will grow. The sonnet references death when it states, “So what could death do if you were to leave” (11). This suggests that love will last even after the parent's death. He wonders what death will do because love can prevent death from separating a child from his parents. The parent takes care of the child and this, in return, makes the child take care of his parent. This is the love that death cannot separate. Another suggestion is stated when the poem says, “Don't be stubborn because you are too fair…in the middle of the paper…states, “Or ten times happier be ten times one, ten times yourself would be happier than six, if ten of your ten times represented you” (8-10). This suggests that having children will make the parent ten times happier than they would be without children. Love grows between a child and his parent when the parent takes care of the child. As stated in line 10, having children will refigure the parent. This poem is written to encourage people to have children so that they can experience the caring love that can last with the child after the parent's death. The parent takes care of the child by saving money for the child. Parents should not try to earn all the money they can just so they can spend it on themselves. It means taking care to save money for the child so that the parent will have something to give when the time comes to leave the world.