The speaker then tells his beloved youth that if even reading this sonnet will cause him to suffer, he should forget the hand that wrote the poem. The speaker tells the youth not to mourn for him when he is dead, and that the youth should only think about him for as long as it takes to tell the world of his death. In this sonnet, the speaker is now concentrating on his own death and how the youth is to mourn him after he is deceased. Shakespeare's sonnet cycle has overarching themes of great love and the passage of time. It focuses on the speaker's aging and impending death in relation to his young lover. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Sonnet 71 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.
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