The sonnet criticizes the subject for bearing love to anyone while being so unkind to themselves. It urges the subject to change their hateful thoughts so that the speaker may change their mind, and asks them to be gracious and kind like their presence, or at least kindhearted to themselves. It asks the subject to make themselves another self for the love of the speaker, so that beauty may still live within them or through them.
The sonnet criticizes the subject for bearing love to anyone while being so unkind to themselves. It urges the subject to change their hateful thoughts so that the speaker may change their mind, and asks them to be gracious and kind like their presence, or at least kindhearted to themselves. It asks the subject to make themselves another self for the love of the speaker, so that beauty may still live within them or through them.
The sonnet criticizes the subject for bearing love to anyone while being so unkind to themselves. It urges the subject to change their hateful thoughts so that the speaker may change their mind, and asks them to be gracious and kind like their presence, or at least kindhearted to themselves. It asks the subject to make themselves another self for the love of the speaker, so that beauty may still live within them or through them.