Sonnet #146

As the sonnets come to an end the speaker acknowledges his fate. His fate is to die and be eaten by worms and lose all that he has strived to gain throughout his life. Here the speaker is concerned about the struggle he has between life and death. In the very beginning he says that his soul rebels against his body since death is so near and there is nothing his body can do. He wonders if life is worth living if all that is gained in life is lost in death. He finds no point to life and longing since death is so close. His advice to the reader is to starve his body since it will allbe lost anyway. The way the speaker bounces between happiness, love, patheticness, and gloom in his sonnets really leads me to believe that he was somewhat unstable.