【欣赏】 这第一首，诗人开宗明义地提出：熟透了的东西随时会殒落，血亲后嗣就该继承他的遗业，要美的生命不断繁衍孳生，艳丽的玫瑰才不会凋谢。这是
自然法则，也启示着现实中人应步的常道。但是朋友，你却不去寻结连理，只独钟其身，恰似和自己的眼睛订婚，燃尽自身，也只能烧炼出双眸的光焰，而不能把你的美传诸后人。这是和自己作对，就会在丰饶的田野上酿出了饥馑。你本是天地的精华，鲜艳的珍品，自应婚娶，生育美的后代，为灿烂的春天开路。而你却不肯与美人结合，愿在自身的花蕾里埋葬了自己。这种自怜的吝啬，酿成了毁灭的浪费，该有多么可惜与可叹啊！所以，诗人于最后剀切陈情：亲爱的朋友，可怜这世界吧，你不能违背自然规律，把世界应得的统统让坟墓吞去，和你一同消逝。
★☞ 从上段可以看出，这首诗主要表达
莎士比亚一方面非常惋惜朋友独自生活而不肯结连理的情感，另一方面又在极力劝说他的朋友，传宗接代是自然规律，不能违背，留下后代才能让美永存，所以要赶快婚娶啊！蕴含着
文艺复兴时代，一个人文主义者赤诚的
现实主义精神。您听到了吗，诗人在为春天开路，为美的永驻而呐喊哩！
莎士比亚
《十四行诗》的1-17首形成一组，具有同一主题，都是诗人劝他的青年好友应该结婚的。因为，时间在改变一切，他那美的形貌也会消逝；只有结婚生育，才能在后代的身上永驻青春。从这组诗里，我们得识诗人那积极进取的人生哲理与现实主义精神。
开篇的十七首诗，主题随同，但是莎氏以不同的譬喻，从不同的角度，提炼、抒发为深沉的诗。
摘自：友谊与爱情--莎士比亚十四行诗欣赏（英汉对照），这本书里的赏析很全面。
【英文赏析】
As the opening sonnet of the sequence, this one obviously has especial importance. It appears to look both before and after, into the future and the past. It sets the tone for the following group of so called 'procreation' sonnets 1-17. In addition, many of the compelling ideas of the later sonnets are first sketched out here - the youth's beauty, his vulnerability in the face of time's cruel processes, his potential for harm, to the world, and to himself, (perhaps also to his lovers), nature's beauty, which is dull in comparison to his, the threat of disease and cankers, the folly of being miserly, the need to see the world in a larger sense than through one's own restricted vision.
'Fair youth, be not churlish, be not self-centred, but go forth and fill the world with images of yourself, with heirs to replace you. Because of your beauty you owe the world a recompense, which now you are devouring as if you were an enemy to yourself. Take pity on the world, and do not, in utter selfish miserliness, allow yourself to become a perverted and self destructive object who eats up his own posterity'.
详情见
谷歌英文网
www.shakespeares-sonnets.com