This sonnet to me was a little harder to understand then sonnet number two. After reading the entirety of the sonnet it is evident that he is describing someone who is so in love that he’s nervous and scared. In lines three and four the emotion and theme seems to change, but what I think Shakespeare was trying to do is to portray a comparison. He is describing something that shows too much anger or rage on the outside, but because of all the strength it takes to be angry it ends up weakening his own heart. Later in lines seven and eight Shakespeare comes back to make another comparison with lines three and four. Like the man in the sonnet was the thing with too much rage and that the strength of love breaks him down, and he is changed by the burden of his own loves might. In lines ten, eleven and twelve Shakespeare gets more in-depth with how the man in the sonnet feels about love or about a particular person. He is simply trying to say, “Don’t listen to dumb people or people of no knowledge, but listen to me and the words of my heart. Those people are begging and longing to find love and look for ways of compensation, and I’m speaking words that can never truly show how deeply I feel for you”. The overall emotion that I believe is shown throughout this sonnet is the feeling of longing and the overwhelming emotion of love.
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