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William Shakespeare is famous for his soul-stirring plays. However, few people are familiar with his sonnets, themselves achievements of great merit.

In Sonnet 19, the speaker personifies and challenges Time to devastate his art as he does all living creatures as they age; then he declares that Time cannot do so.

In Shakespeare's "Marriage Sonnet 8," the speaker for the first time evokes the joyful state of marriage itself, as he continues urging the young man to produce an heir.

The sonneteer has come to end of his ability to explore new themes in his sonnet sequence: he is now rehashing the disparity between what he sees and what is there.

The speaker in the Shakespeare "Marriage Sonnets" has one goal in mind, to persuade a young man that he should marry and produce beautiful heirs.

In Sonnet 10, the speaker challenges the young man's sense of self, regarding his love and affection for others. The speaker exaggerates the lack as "murderous hate."

In marriage sonnet 11, the speaker again evokes the young man's pleasing qualities, claiming that the lad has an obligation to marry and pass them on to offspring.

The speaker of Shakespeare's marriage poem 12 again shows how changing nature always comes under "Time's scythe," and only one remedy can fend him off: producing an heir.

The second marriage sonnet continues the speaker's plea to the young man to marry. He urges the lad to think "carpe diem" before his beauty fades.

Sonnet 3 of the "Marriage Sonnets" focuses on the young man's image in the mirror. Again the speaker appeals to young man to marry and reproduce to bequeath his beauty.

Each "marriage sonnet" employs a particular metaphor, but the speaker continues with his one theme; he is trying to persuade the young man to marry and produce offspring.

The speaker of sonnet 5 dramatizes the young man's youth as summer and compares old age to horrid winter, while portraying offspring as the distillation of flowers.

Love is the most important subject for this speaker/poet of the sonnets. The "little songs" do consistently sing of it-not ordinary or romantic love but soul love.

Sonnet 6 might be considered a companion piece to Sonnet 5 as the speaker opens by referring to the metaphor he used in the earlier sonnet, the distillation of flowers.

The speaker employs a clever pun in Sonnet 7 as he metaphorically compares the young man's life to a daily trip of the great star across the sky.

In Sonnet 9, the speaker queries the young man about another possible reason for his remaining single: does he fear leaving some poor woman a widow?

Sonnet 45 focuses on how the lighter qualities of air and fire play on the speaker's moods and attitudes, as he contemplates the state of his creativity.

In Shakespeare sonnet 46, the speaker explores and dramatizes the conflict between two sensibilities: the aesthetic sense or "eye" vs. pure feeling or "heart."

Shakespeare Sonnet 47 dramatizes the unity of the "heart" and "eye" of the speaker/artist-a "league" which satisfies as it enhances the sensibilities of the artist.

Addressing his muse, the poet/speaker warns that he will do whatever it takes to secure himself from any possible future loss of inspiration.

In sonnet 52, the speaker observes that pleasure is best enjoyed infrequently, as he likens his enjoyment of his own creations to traditionally rare occasions.

In sonnet 54, the speaker avers that beauty is only beautiful when it represents the truth of the soul; outward beauty is truly only skin deep.

The poet/speaker again lauds his own ability to immortalize his subjects. In this sonnet, he addresses the sonnet itself in order to praise it.

The speaker dramatizes his relationship with his muse to whom he deems himself a slave. The importance of his muse is emphasized by averring his own dedication.

The speaker in sonnet 58 addresses his muse as he often does; this time he is examining the process of waiting on the pleasure of the muse to inform his creativity.

The speaker examines the injunction that there is no such thing as originality. What any creator creates has already been created-how does this fact affect the artist?

Shakespeare Sonnet 60 explores again the ravages of time and the intransience of the speaker's verse. He addresses an unidentified ubiquitous listener as he muses aloud.

In sonnet 61, the speaker is finding his muse playing coy once again, and it keeps him awake wondering where she is, as he poses three questions only he can answer.

The speaker in sonnet 62 takes a critical look at his obsession with his own self but then concludes that that love is really for his soul, a spark of the Divine.