Sonnet 4: Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend

In the intriguing fourth Sonnet, William Shakespeare makes what sounds like a fairly abstract case for the young man to now produce an heir. But could it be that this in itself tells us something about the young man and about the culture he and Shakespeare live and operate in on the one hand and also about the reasons Shakespeare may have for actually writing these first few sonnets that form the Procreation Sequence?...