Sonnet 146 by William Shakespeare
...bel outer shell of the human after death. “Shall worms-inheritors of this excess/ eat up thy charge!” In this line, it describes how the worms eat up what is left of the charge, or body, of the human. Under ground creatures of the earth will rid of this earth this frail old body after the soul has gone. The soul will go on forever, unlike the body. “Then soul, live thou upon thy servant’s loss/ and let that pine to aggravate thy store.” This explains why bodily comforts are a waste of time. Spiritual solace will lead to an eternal life of happiness. “Painting thy outward walls so costly gay why so large cost/ having so short a lease dost thou upon thy fading mansions spend?” This is another way of saying not to spend all of mortal life comforting your physical self and spend it working towards spiritual fulfillment. Once the soul is free of the constraints of the body it will never die. “So shalt thou feed on death, that feeds on men and death once dead/ there’s no more dying then.” These lines point out that no matter what happens to the soul after the death of the body its end will never come. “Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross within...