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By personifying time and using literary devices, the narrator illustrates how Time antagonizes him but that he is confident that he can retaliate against time and succeed

Shakespeare's "Sonnet 129" paints a bleak picture of love and desire, leaving the reader with a view of lust that contradicts the usual expectations of a sonnet.

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."

The speaker addresses the Muse directly, even calling her "Muse"; he audaciously instructs her to inspire only the artist who has skill and right understanding-himself.

The speaker in sonnet 101 again addresses the Muse directly, asking her to continue to accompany him on his journey in creating an enduring poetry to bestow on posterity.

The speaker in sonnet 102 dramatizes the principle of moderation, even minimalism, as he explains his reasons for self-restraint in portraying the subject of love.

In sonnet 103, the speaker addresses his sonnet, expressing its beauty and worth above the contributions of both his talent and his muse.

Addressing his poem in sonnet 104, the poet/speaker declares the immortality and agelessness of the art that he creates, employing the seasons to dramatize his claim.

The speaker in sonnet 105 creates an artist's holy trinity of "fair, kind, and true," a reflection of his beloved subjects of beauty, love, and truth.

Addressing the sonnet, the speaker/poet in Shakespeare sonnet 106 celebrates the poem's ability to skillfully portray beauty that outshines that of the ancients

Addressing his sonnet, the poet/speaker again affirms that despite the ravages of time and wrong thinking that may obliterate and denigrate art, his sonnet will live on.

Sonnets 108 and 126 should possibly be grouped with the "marriage poems" 1-17, in which the speaker pleads with a young man to marry and produce lovely children.

Addressing his Muse, the speaker begins to soften the harshness that once accompanied his complaining when he spoke of separation from his musical inspiration.

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.

Addressing his Muse, the speaker in sonnet 110 confesses that he has behaved in ways that he now detests and rejects, and he affirms his dedication to truth and love.

Sonnet 111 offers a bit of information that points to the Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere, as the true author of the Shakespearean oeuvre.

In sonnet 112, the speaker compares his private relationship with his Muse to his relationship with the broad society, as he praises the advantages of his private life.

The speaker's obsession with creating poetry in the presence of his divine Muse is given a thorough examination, as he compares his creative mind and his physical eye.

Continuing his thought from sonnet 113, the speaker in sonnet 114 again dramatizes an aspect of this struggle between the mind and the senses to determine the genuine.

Addressing his sonnet, the poet/speaker strives to analyze, through dramatization, the depth of his genuine affection for his art.

Sonnet 116 dramatizes the nature of love, not ordinary affection but abiding love that he defines as the "marriage of true minds" that cannot be destroyed by fickle time.

Addressing his Muse in a confrontational tone in sonnet 117, the speaker, half in jest, begs forgiveness for his trespasses of neglect and carousing with lesser minds.

The speaker in sonnet 118 confesses to his Muse that he has learned that the use of artificial stimuli to retain his ardor for writing is not effective.

In sonnet 119, the speaker again examines and dramatizes his "wretched errors," and they are errors that his "heart committed" but from which learns a valuable lesson.

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.

In sonnet 120, the speaker again confronts the Muse for mistreating him, but he has found a way to employ that maltreatment for the better good, as he always does.

In sonnet 121, the speaker soliloquizes about the damage caused by gossiping critics who attempt to destroy what they do no understand.

In sonnet 122, the speaker addresses the Giver of his gift of poetry, dramatizing the ability of his memory to retain the love and inspiration of the Divine Giver.

The speaker in sonnet 123 again accosts his adversary, Time, dramatizing his faith that his art can outpace Time's scythe: Time moves in haste; art evolves with intent.

In sonnet 124, the speaker dramatizes the nature of his "dear love," the motivating soul-power that guides his craftsmanship and keeps his creative juices flowing.

Again addressing his Muse, the speaker in sonnet 125 concludes that despite his dedication to poetry creation, finally all he has to give his Muse is his own soul.

Sonnet 126 is a problem; it is not technically a sonnet. It has only 12 lines, six rimed couplets. It is located between the "young man" and the "dark lady" sonnets.

Sonnet 127 begins the "Dark Lady" series of the Shakespeare sonnets.

Sonnet 128 is purely for fun; the speaker plies his clever creativity as he dramatizes his feigned jealousy of the keyboard on which his lady is playing music for him.

Sonnet 129 dramatizes the pit of promiscuity, where copulation engaged in solely out of lust engenders all manner of evil consequences.

In sonnet 13 the speaker continues pleading with the young man to marry and father a son. Again, the speaker is quite specific: "You had a father: let your son say so."

The speaker in Sonnet 130 challenges the Petrarchan tradition of putting the beloved upon a pedestal to show the lover's affection.

Even as he defends her physical beauty, the beguiled speaker in sonnet 131 introduces the notion of the ugly "deeds" of which the dark lady persona proves capable.

In sonnet 132, the speaker dramatizes the dark lady's "pretty ruth," likening her "mourning" eyes to the sun in the morning and then in the evening.

In sonnet 133, the speaker bemoans the fact that the cruel lady has not only captured his heart but also his Muse, that is, his other self who creates his poems.

The speaker in sonnet 134 descends into a vulgar discussion, lamenting the sexual attraction he suffers because of the lustful lady.

Sonnets 135 and 136 both focus intensely on punning the word, "Will." The poet, Edward de Vere, uses the nickname "Will" from his pseudonym, William Shakespeare.

As with sonnet 135, the speaker continues his word play by punning his pseudonymic nickname, Will, as he dramatizes his lust for the alluring dark lady.

Sonnet 137 dramatizes the speaker's musing, primarily through questions, about the oft-disjointed consequences of what the eye sees and what the heart believes.

The speaker in Sonnet 138 confesses to a less than perfect relationship based on lies and deceit of which each partner is aware, yet they continue to flatter each other.

In sonnet 139, again addressing the "dark lady," the speaker bemoans and condemns her infidelity, as the tension grows between his desire and his intelligence.

In sonnet 14 the speaker says he does not have the power to predict the future by gazing at the stars in the sky, but the eyes of the young man tell all he needs to know.

The speaker suffers from his conscious denial: he knows the "dark lady" is not true to him, but his infatuation with her causes him to ask her to feign fidelity.

The speaker taunts the "dark lady" demeaning her looks, decrying her ability to attract him physically, yet insisting that he foolishly remains in her clutches.