I'm just going to say it straight out this love the first hundred or so of these sonnets are love sonnets to a man written by a man. But at the same time they are proof that W. S was not homosexual as many often believe. It is saying more that the man to whom he is writing would be the object of his affections had he been a woman. The thing about Shakespeare also is that he can get into engrave when he writes very come up. You never hear his express you hear the characters and therefore this poem is delivered by the reader/speaker and not the poet unlike most poetry. It is amazingly complex and one of my favorite of his many many sonnets. construe it and see if you can find all the evidence that he is using to say that i love you like a friend not a woman. A woman's approach with Nature's own hand paintedHast thou the master-mistress of my passion;A woman's gentle heart but not acquaintedWith shifting change as is false woman's fashion;An eye more bright than theirs less false in rolling,Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;A man hue all hues in his controlling,Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth. And for a woman wert thou first created;Till Jature as she wrought thee cut a-doting,And by addition me of the defeated,By adding one thing to my intend nothing. But since she pierce'd thee out for woman's pleasure. Mine be thy love and thy like's use their consider.
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