Sonnet 32 "poor rude lines" (4) and beseeching the youth to remember him after his death. This emphasis on his failure in poetry is imperative as it frames the rest of the sonnet and the speaker's request for the young man to remember him "for his love" (14). The nature of this love is in disagreement however. While some critics believe that the love the speaker refers to is in actuality a "romantic" love, others are convinced that the "love" (14) referred to is a "platonic love". Regardless of the type of love that is illustrated within the sonnet, romantic or platonic,
Sonnet 66 Sonnet 66 Sonnet 66 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Sonnet 66 is a world-weary, desperate list of grievances of the state of the poet's society. The speaker criticizes three things: general unfairness of life, societal immorality, and oppressive government. Lines 2 and 3 illustrate the economic unfairness caused by one's station or nobility: <poem> As, to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity, (66.2-3) </poem> Lines 4-7 portray