Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 and 130

You can’t have a full course on English or any literature without mentioning William Shakespeare himself! The man is like a permanent stain in all of literature history! He is the godfather of all plays, poems, and sonnets. This time he serves us Sonnets 116 and 130.

    Hm, where to start? Both deal with one of he well-known specialties in literature, love. Sonnet 116 basically tells what love is and isn’t. Love is perfect and unchanging. It doesn’t know what time or a superficial surface is. So no matter how old and ugly the loved gets, love will still be there. That is my idea of love.

Sonnet 130 is similar to Sonnet 116. Shakespeare speaks of a woman that he is dating. He says she may not be the best looking woman in the world but he still loves her nevertheless. He thinks she is rare and loves her for that.

I think Shakespeare’s sonnets are just the appetizer to his other works.