The second sonnet kind of expands more on an idea from the first about how he needs to take advantage of his youth and beauty before he loses it to old age. This sonnet bears a strong sense of negativity towards the aging process and the way it steals the world's loveliness. The second quatrain seems to ask the question, "Where is all your beauty now that you're old?" and the third quatrain of the sonnet also asks "What could be better than being able to show off your greatness with beautiful offspring?"
The couplet also uses similar contradicting words in the same manner as the first sonnet such as "new made when thou art old" and "blood warm when thou feel'st it cold." These statements sound like paradoxes at first but make sense when looked at as the man continuing his lineage. The speaker wants the young man to see the necessity that he have a child which he can see himself in and carry his blood while he begins to grow old.
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