Then let not winters wragged hand deface, Shakespeare: Summary & Analysis
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Sonnet 6: "Then let not winters wragged hand deface" is a Shakespearean sonnet that continues to explore the theme of the passage of time and its effect on beauty. The speaker advises the subject to preserve their youthful beauty by procreating and passing it on to the next generation. The poem emphasizes the idea that the continuation of one's beauty through offspring is a way to defeat the inevitability of aging and death. Sonnet 6: "Then let not winters wragged hand deface" Original Text Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface, In thee thy summer, ere thou be distilled: Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place With beauty’s treasure ere it be self-killed. That use is not forbidden usury, Which happies those that pay the willing loan; That’s for thy self to breed another thee, Or ten times happier, be it ten for one; Ten times thy self were happier than thou art, If ten of thine ten times refigured thee: Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart, Leaving thee l…