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She abandons him in pursuit of someone who doesn’t want her. The “babe” symbolizes the speaker himself. These chickens, which should be far less important than her own child, symbolize the Fair Youth. He compares the woman he loves, the Dark Lady, to a housewife who gone running after chickens. In the first lines of ‘Sonnet 143,’ the speaker begins by setting up the simile. ’Sonnet 143’ by William Shakespeare depicts the speaker’s relationship through an image of a mother chasing chickens and abandoning her child. If thou turn back and my loud crying still. So will I pray that thou mayst have thy ‘Will,’ Whilst I thy babe chase thee afar behind īut if thou catch thy hope, turn back to me,Īnd play the mother’s part, kiss me, be kind So runn’st thou after that which flies from thee, Not prizing her poor infant’s discontent

To follow that which flies before her face, Whilst her neglected child holds her in chase,Ĭries to catch her whose busy care is bent In pursuit of the thing she would have stay Sets down her babe, and makes all swift dispatch One of her feathered creatures broke away, He’s willing to go to any lengths to make her stay with him.

He compares himself to an infant and the Dark Lady to his mother. This particular sonnet depicts the desperate nature of the speaker’s love. They deal with the speaker (who is usually considered William Shakespeare himself) and his relationship with his mistress, the Dark Lady. It is part of the Dark Lady sequence of sonnets. ‘ Sonnet 143’ is one of William Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets.