ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Throughout his sonnets, Shakespeare clearly implies that love hurts. Yet despite the emotional and physical pain, like the speaker, we continue falling in love. Shakespeare shows that falling in love is an inescapable aspect of the human condition-indeed, expressing love is part of what makes us human.

Detailed explanation-2: -The sonnets cover such themes as the passage of time, love, infidelity, jealousy, beauty and mortality. The first 126 are addressed to a young man; the last 28 are either addressed to, or refer to, a woman.

Detailed explanation-3: -Shakespeare begins his sonnets by introducing six of his most important themes-beauty, time, decay, immortality, procreation and selfishness, which are interrelated in sonnet 1 both thematically and through the use of images associated with business or commerce[3].

Detailed explanation-4: -The rhyme scheme in Love Is Not All follows that of a Shakespearean sonnet, however, the division of lines indicate a Petrarchan sonnet.