The speaker, however, fails in attempt to assert that this beauty will be immortal throughout time in his mimicking time passing. While he tries to maintain the beauty’s strength throughout the passing time of the sonnet, the repetitive is counterproductive in that the repetition also implies a repetition of time. The speaker paints a picture that is exactly like the past: a situation in which he is not able to properly describe itself; he fails to immortalize the subject due to his lack of detail, but he instead, perpetuates the dilemma in which each successive generation thinks they are superior to the past, as even though the past immortalizes the idea of itself, the past will always fail to immortalize
The speaker, however, fails in attempt to assert that this beauty will be immortal throughout time in his mimicking time passing. While he tries to maintain the beauty’s strength throughout the passing time of the sonnet, the repetitive is counterproductive in that the repetition also implies a repetition of time. The speaker paints a picture that is exactly like the past: a situation in which he is not able to properly describe itself; he fails to immortalize the subject due to his lack of detail, but he instead, perpetuates the dilemma in which each successive generation thinks they are superior to the past, as even though the past immortalizes the idea of itself, the past will always fail to immortalize