William Shakespeare's Sonnets: Elements Of Love

William Shakespeare’s sonnets include elements of love, friendship, and marriage. His 154 sonnets are divided into two main sections, first part is about friendship and the second part is about a relationship. His sonnets include friendship, love, and marriage in his own way of understanding. He was born in Stratford-opon-Avon on the 23 April, 1564. According to the tradition, he was baptised on 26 April. He is the son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. Shakespeare was the third child of the family. He died on the 23 April, 1616. (Holy Trinity Church) Shakespeare was an English poet and a playwright. Famous for his well-respected writings that used figurative language, he was the world’s fantabulous dramatist. He was acknowledged as England’s national poet, and the “Bard Of Avon.” Some of his works consists of 36 plays. 154 sonnets that embodied the elements of love, friendship and marriage. (Holy Trinity Church) “Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets is a sequel that’s divided into sections. Sonnet 1-126 focuses on a young man and the speaker’s friendship with him, and

One of the element of his sonnet is about love. Love can have various types of meaning. “[Love is a] strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties.” (Merriam-Webster) Shakespeare’s sonnets from the first seventeen poems express the speakers unqualified love for a young man. Shakespeare answered the meaning of love in a plenitude of ways. He illustrates the various types of love in his sonnet. “Love is a passion, kindling heart, brain, and senses alike in natural and happy proportions; ardent but not sensual, tender but not sentimental, pure but not ascetic, moral but not puritanic, joyous but not frivolous, mirthful and witty but not cynical.” Described the norm of love of Shakespeare. (C H