Sonnet 12

1. What connection does the speaker make between the change of seasons and love ones beauty?

Shakespeare's connection between changing seasons and the beauty of the love ones on Sonnet 12 is that he tries to show how beauty ends up aging.

The passage of time ends up ruining the young beauty, either in a change of season, such as when talking about trees that being autumn no longer have those beautiful leaves that provided shelter to the herds, or the flowers that wilt and they are no longer so beautiful; as well as the passage of time in a man, whose hair and beard that were previously black now turned white, and the beauty of his beloved one which, as time progresses, will abandon her.

The only way Shakespeare sees a solution to the advancement of time is to have children to leave as a proof of beauty.