The answer to this question is that Shakespeare's sonnets were not fiction. ... He presents a new question to her, asking if she does not want children only because she does not like sex. ... But if the reader looks beyond this simple pronoun, then the reader will notice that with these four lines together, Shakespeare is describing how natural it is for both men and women to want to have children. ... This may be a little lurid for some tastes, but considering the speaker is dealing with someone who clearly doesn't want to have sex, the audience needs to be reminded just how unna...

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