The living record of your memory
‘Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity
Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room,
Even in the eyes of all prosperity
That wear this world out to the ending doom.
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 55, Lines 8-12
In this sonnet the idea of human mortality is put into question and here Shakespeare lets his beloved know that he will remain immortal in this poem. In these lines, he wants his beloved to know that his memory will overcome everything while the people who judged him will not.
