The renaissance time period can be traced back to thirteenth or fourteenth century Italy, specially Florence. Philosophers, writers, and artists of this time period, felt like it was a reawakening for new philosophies and moral beliefs. Francesco Petrarca, or commonly known as Petrarch, is considered to be one of the first writers of the Renaissance time period. Petrarch sonnets were known to be about love, unrequited love, emotional states of one’s well being, and were typically very somber in tone. William Shakespeare, a famous poet, writer, and playwright, followed in Petrarch’s footsteps and wrote 154 sonnets about men, beauty, love, and sadness. In this essay, the reader will understand how Shakespeare’s sonnets during the renaissance, can be connected to contemporary song lyrics of the twenty first century. His sonnet 147, will be compared and contrasted to singer Beyonce’s Hold Up, and his sonnet 152 will be compared and contrasted to singer Amy Winehouse’s You Know I’m No Good. These sonnets and songs, talk about love lost, the evils of love, and how not everyone walking this earth is pure at heart. William Shakespeare sonnet 147, is talking about a man, most likely Shakespeare himself, feeling as if love and everything that is involved with it is revolting and unhealthy. He feels as if he is giving all of his love, time and energy onto one person and he isn’t receiving the same affection back. Shakespeare expresses his feelings of being crazy and upset with the