Sonnet Rough Draft

I would have to say that this critics idea hits these sonnets right on the head so I would like to be able to expand on her argument so that I can possibly help anyone who doesn't understand fully understand or agree by giving more examples and questions that I would bring up in a longer essay. So as we have seen in the critics essay we have the first 126 sonnets being about a young male and the last twenty-eight being about a “dark lady”. Some of the evidence that I would use are looking at the sonnets in groups; showing a profession of a story for both the young male and the woman. If we look at the sonnets this way it makes both stories a little easier for the reader to grasp our idea. We first look at sonnets one through seventeen and we see how this is where Shakespear is trying to bring his young lover to him so that they can be together and create a family.

At first we don't really see Shakespear as attached to this young man but when reading sonnet twenty-six you see that he has no progressed into becoming more attached to him then he originally planned, so attached that it changes his mood and demeanor when the young man isn't around. This weird attachment is seen all the way up to sonnet fifty-eight where we then see Shakespear getting bipolar with his emotions about this young man. A little twist in the story of the young man and Shakespear is how in sonnets forty to forty-two we see a friendship between the young man and Shakespear’s mistress and also in sonnets seventy-nine to eighty-seven where the young man has a friendship with a rival poet of Shakespear’s. The last few sonnets before we are introduced to the “dark lady” show how Shakespear drops his young male love but then decides to go back and apologize, even when he's done nothing