Sonnet 147

I chose Sonnet 147 because unlike most Shakespeare sonnet’s it has a dark tone. It is alike his other sonnets because the rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg. I found this sonnet interesting because he talks about the dangers of love. The sonnets message revolves around how you can love someone so much that it hurts, and without their love in return, you become physically/mentally/emotionally ill. He refers to a physician meaning the ‘love doctor’ and he’s mad because he didn’t “keep his prescriptions,” or follow his directions. As time progresses that patient only gets worse and his pain turns into insanity, for whom he thought was the brightest and fairest, was actually ‘black as hell and dark as night.’