Shakespeare's Sonnets, Sonnet 71 — streszczenie

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1. The speaker asks the loved person to mourn only while the death bell sounds.
2. He asks the reader to forget the writer if remembering him causes sadness.
3. He imagines the loved person reading the poem after his body becomes part of the earth.
4. He asks that his name go unspoken and that love end with his life.
5. He explains that the world might inspect the loved person's grief and mock them both.

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The command makes the request for forgetting concrete. The speaker seeks to spare the loved person both painful remembrance and public mockery.

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