Shakespeare's patron, and one candidate for the Fair Youth of the sonnets.Ĩ The sonnet starts with a negative wish let me not Accept agree that there are Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. An affair is later indicated between the fair youth and the dark lady, but the nature of the relationship between the poet (Shakespeare?) and the fair youth is ambiguous. Sonnets feature the dark lady and become more sexual in tone. The language used is romantic and loving. Shakespeare s sonnets also tell this story, using characters: the poet the fair youth the dark lady and the rival poet. Without impediment, the lover would have no need to resort to poetry he would have something better to do. Impediment is as central to the sonnet as love. Sonnets tell a story or rather, are built around a story a story of love: love unrequited, love requited but unfulfilled, love so fleetingly fulfilled as merely to make suffering keener, love thwarted by the beloved's absence, or aloofness, or prior possession by another. 6 Shakespeare s Sonnets While Wyatt introduced the sonnet into English, it was Shakespeare who became its most famous practitioner.
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