Why are you sad when you hear music? The second line suggests (at least as we interpret it) that that opening phrase, ‘Music to hear’, should be analysed as a description of the Youth himself. In summary, Shakespeare is continuing his attempts to persuade the Fair Youth to marry and have children. However we choose to analyse it, this opening line establishes the musical theme of Shakespeare’s argument in this sonnet. ‘As there is music for you to hear, why are you sad when you listen to it?’). ‘You yourself are music that should be heard’) or as a description of the music that is ripe for being heard (i.e. Shakespeare begins Sonnet 8 with a somewhat ambiguous line: ‘Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?’ That opening phrase, ‘Music to hear’, could be interpreted either as an address to the Fair Youth (i.e. Sings this to thee: ‘Thou single wilt prove none.’ Whose speechless song being many, seeming one, Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing: Resembling sire and child and happy mother, Mark how one string, sweet husband to another, In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear. They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds If the true concord of well-tuned sounds, Or else receiv’st with pleasure thine annoy? Why lov’st thou that which thou receiv’st not gladly, Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy: Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?
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