This sonnet clearly conveys the speaker’s disbelief of the expression “aging gracefully.” He paints a dreadful picture of growing old and dying. However, his insistence on portraying death as a gruesome end may simply be a method of frightening the reader. At the end of the sonnet, a solution is proposed to combat one’s demise. Having children can save the reader from this awful fate. By reproducing, an individual takes comfort in the fact that as they slowly fade away, his children will continue to live and grow. The reader needs to acknowledge that death is inevitable. Nevertheless, the process will be easier by surrounding himself with the youth and vigor of his children, as they will far outlive him.
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