Shakespeare Sonnet 55

This sonnet can easily be seen having a connection to the 18th sonnet in its claims of immortality.  He begins by saying how not even great statues of stone will last longer than the young man now that he has been put into these words.  Not even violent war could erase his record from existence.  Shakespeare's writing will preserve the young man so that even if he dies, he'll never be forgotten and can live on in that sense.  The last line seemed to create some controversy over how it should be interpreted.  "You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes."  Some might argue he meant to say that basically wherever there is love, the young man will be reflected.  I like to think that he meant the lovers are the readers of this poem who hear about the man and themselves become infatuated.  Either way, it's interesting to think that Shakespeare could have predicted the future so well to know that people would in fact be reading about this man for centuries to come.