"when it is finally won," and the fifth clause offers a breathtaking, plain truth that even offers a humorous description: "when it is more/than the gaudy mumbo jumbo of politicians." What an irony that a need so vital to everyone could become the "gaudy mumbo jumbo of politicians"!from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: August Poet --Robert Hayden
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"When his youthful morn//Hath travell'd on to age's steepy night"; and when "all those beauties whereof now he's king" disappear, they will so vanish like "the treasure of his spring." The speaker goes deeply into describing the phenomenon of growing old, emphasizing the devastation that it brings, in order to contrast the value of his ever youthful talent of encasing his eternal, undying love in his poems.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 63
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If the speaker will meditate on his soul and study the ways of the Divine, he will overcome death. Ordinary men allow death to consume them, but those who contact the soul are able to transcend death, realizing at last the soul is immortal and never dies: "there's no more dying then."
This speaker holds for himself a lofty goal, which is a natural outcome from living a life of intense creativity and muse sparring that has always engaged him.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 146
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