Sonnet #146

This sonnet is extremely interesting as well. I think the speaker is questioning why we spend so much time concerned with our outer appearance, and not what makes up our insides, or soul. We spend our whole lives trying to look good, when we're only alive for a short time. But our souls still live on, so we must feed them. The speaker is saying to let the soul consume the riches, and leave the body poor because we will soon enough be leaving the body to rot. The couplet is saying that a person should feed on death with feeds on men, so if we beat death then there will be no more dying. I think the speaker is saying that this can be achieved by standing by inner morals and not allowing oneself to be consumed by outward appearances.