Now knowing that these are from a man to a man is kinda odd!!! I'm (hoping) assuming that he is just speaking out of contern ffor a really good friend. I read sonnet 3 and 10. In sonnet 3, (I've titled it halting procreation) Shakespeare speaks to his "friend" and it seems he tells him that he's a bad husband basically because he has not even attempted procreation with his wife. he says from the 1st line to the 6th line, "Look in they glass, and tell the face thou viewest/ Now is the time that face should form another,/ Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,/ Thou dost begile the world, unbless some mother./ for where is she so fair whose uneared womb/ Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?" He seems to chastise his friend by saying you are vain, and though you are beautiful and you should consumate the marriage bed that remains cold, you do not and your wifes womb remains barren. then lines 7 through 8 he continues to tell his friend you are foolishly in love with yourself. In line 9 through 14, shakespeare says youwill be beautiful as long as you live but once old age sets in and the wrinkles really start to show your gonna wish you left something behind to carry out your beauty because yours will be gone in one generation but if you procreate your beauty will last for many generations!

Now the next one sonnet 10. In sonnet 10 shakespeare talks about the vanity that his holds within himself. when he says "For shame deny thou bear'st love to any/ Who for thyself art so unprovident:/ Grant, if thou wilt, thou art beloved of many,/ but that thou none lov'st is most evident;/ For thou art possessed with murd'rous hate/ That 'gainst thyself thou stick'st not conspire,/ Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate/ Which to repair should be thy chief desire." here I believe that he is saying you vanity is causeing a ruination in you household, you should be trying to fix your family and finish your marriage in procreation but rather than do this you thinkonly of yourself. Then throughout the rest of this sonnet he trys to persuede his friend to change his mind about all these things. He begs his friend to change his personality and "be as thy presence is, gracious and kind," then he begs him to think of himself in another light and procreate for love of humankind and even shakespeare himself.

This interpretation truely takes a whole new meaning on when you know that this is from a man to a man. wheither this love is homosexual plee or hetrosexual concern it is both beautiful and sad, Strange and wonderous. This is also prooveing the depth of elizabethian vanity and personality making life a little bit better or worse back then.