ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets. The most famous include Sonnet 18, with opening lines “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?", and Sonnet 130, which begins “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun."

Detailed explanation-2: -Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets published in his ‘quarto’ in 1609, covering themes such as the passage of time, mortality, love, beauty, infidelity, and jealousy. The first 126 of Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed to a young man, and the last 28 addressed to a woman – a mysterious ‘dark lady’.

Detailed explanation-3: -’Sonnet 154, ’ also known as ‘The little Love-god lying once asleep, ’ describes how impossible it is for the speaker to rid himself of his love. There’s nothing he can do to stop loving the Dark Lady. This poem is one of William Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets.

Detailed explanation-4: -Shakespeare published a quarto of 154 sonnets in 1609. He wrote the poems throughout his career.

Detailed explanation-5: -William Shakespeare, author of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems.