Shakespeare's life was full of great tragedy, love and death. He was able to branch out to explore love and death through his experiences, eventually correlating to a common theme of love and death in his sonnets. In sonnets LXXIV and LXIV, he analyzes the inevitability of death and expression of love.
             The sonnets both have a speaker, who uses similar imagery throughout each of the sonnets. "The earth can have but earth, which is his due" (LXXIV) and "And the firm soil win of the watery main" (LXIV) both use an imagery of the earth. Shakespeare uses the earth as a tool to add to his message of death. Another example of similar imagery in the sonnets is the image of desolation and decay. In LXXIV, Shakespeare writes "The prey of worms, my body being dead" which is comparable to "When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz'd" in sonnet LXIV. In the first sonnet, Shakespeare exemplifies how the dead body will be decayed and eaten away by worms; the second sonnet similarly conveys demise through the image of towers being destroyed. The imagery in the sonnets relay Shakespeare's view of death. In only a few succinct lines, Shakespeare is able to express the inevitability of death: "This thought is as a death which cannot choose/But weep to have that which it fears to lose" (LXIV). Another underlying theme is love within both of the sonnets. Shakespeare's sonnets address his love that he demonstrates. "My spirit is thine, the better part of me" ( LXXIV) is how he reveals that his loving spirit will always be with his loved one. The first sonnet expresses undying love for his lover and the second sonnet also shows a theme of love. The speaker in sonnet LXIV is in love with someone, and talks about how his love will be taken away through death. Although both of these sonnets eloquently state Shakespeare's ideals on love and death, the sonnets d...