"From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content,
And, tender churl, mak'st waste in niggarding:
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee"
Who can understand Shakespeare and what does it mean to me?
Most of his works have undefined meanings, therefore are open to interpretation by the reader. Nobody can tell you what your thoughts mean, just read, analyze, and reflect.
In my opinion....
In the first 4 lines I believe that Shakespeare talks about how humans are greedy in the case of love. We can never be happy with the love we have because we all think that there could be something better out there. We are satisfied with what we have for a while, then we become bored. He then goes on about how we are not fair to ourselves because of this.
Shakespeare speaks of our natural inability to be satisfied. We have a sense that "Enough is never Enough." Why do we act like this? Perhaps this is our next stage to evolve out of, or perhaps it is something we can never grow and therefore we are trapped in our own selfish ideas.
He then goes on to tell of how we all have that sense of contentment inside of us. It just takes a very strong willed person to bring that out. Those who are smart enough to realize the good that they have have the ability to look down and laugh at those who are too immature to keep thinking that there is more and those who are never satisfied.
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