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Shakespeare's sonnets 24f275a0444b02388db3d9fa6679982f_XL (Themes:…
Shakespeare's sonnets 
- the first 126 sonnets:
to a young man: W. H. --> he becomes an object of desire for the speaker
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- the last 28:
to a dark lady, who provokes lust and revulsion
The "dark lady": contradicts Petrarchan conventions - her darkenss turned into a positive aesthetic category:
Only dark-skinned in 7 sonnets: otherwise dark in character
promiscuous, deceptive, corrupt.
These poems: range of moods -bitter, ironic, angry, humiliated, self-humiliating, tender.
(Radically different from all other sonnets)
The Shakespearean sonnet:
- 3 quatrains+ a couplet
abab cdcd efef gg
- iambic pentameter
Exceptions:
-sonnet 99
-sonnet 126
-sonnet 145
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a triangle of sexual desire and jealousy is developed
The speaker-poet: tormented, fearful of betrayal, conscious of his own inferiority
- self-humiliation, self-loathing
- relationship to the dark lady: both desire and disgust.
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