The speaker is examining life choices in this sonnet. He realizes that it is easy to grow greedy for the material possessions in life. However, he has recognized that he will have to leave these items behind after his death; they will simply have no meaning in his eternal life. As a result, he has decided to focus on his spiritual wealth, rather than his physical wealth. The purpose of life is to enrich one’s soul to prepare for the afterlife. The way to defeat death, in his opinion, is to abandon physical desires. This sonnet is one of the later works of Shakespeare. I wonder if thoughts about his own mortality influenced his writing.
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