William Shakespeare is considered one of the most significant English poets and playwrights of all time. Shakespeare is credited with writing 36-38 plays and many sonnets. In most sonnets the form is three separate quatrains and a closing couplet for the emotional and dramatic climax. Some sonnets seem open and addressed to the world. Others are too cryptic and personal to be understandable. Sonnets 18-125 gradually cover many themes associated with a handsome young man. The poet enjoys his friendship and promises to immortalize him through his poems. “Sonnet 19” addresses time and is dedicated to a very special friend. In the first quatrain of the sonnet, the author talks about the devastating effects of time: it affects everything and nothing can escape its impact. The poet directly addresses the weather and vividly describes its effect on the sharp claws of the lion. Time consumes their strength, spoiling and eroding them then he writes that time forces the earth to “.. .devour its sweet brood” (2). Everything that is born from the earth returns...