sentences:  This sonnet takes back the urging that occurs in Sonnet 71, that the young man should forget the author.Instead, this sonnet encourages the youth to keep the better part of the poet, which is in his verse, and which will outlive the poet.There is a sense in this poem that the young man is like one who will potentially inherit something of value, and is at the bedside of a dying rich relation, and is considering in a legalistic manner what that value will be – once the dead body has been carried away and dumped in the earth as food for worms.