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Unusual Relationships in Shakespeare 's Sonnets Shakespeare probably wrote his first sonnet around in 1590s, which was his contribution to his generation for over fifty years. Sonnets became a fashion in that time period and many people had craze for his sonnets (Hyland 125). Some of the major questions can arouse by reading sonnets like, what is a Sonnet? Is it a poem? Does it tell a story? As we read the sonnets, we find that the sonnets expresses true feelings of love, frustrations, as well as relationships with between the poet and the characters (Bloom Modern Critical Interpretation Of William Shakespeare Sonnets 6-7). There are no indication that the love between them was true or not, but could be possibilities. The relationships in sonnets demonstrate powerful meaning of human love between the poet and his characters (Hyland 128). To start with, Son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden, William Shakespeare was the eldest son out of eight children. The baptismal of William Shakespeare was registered on April 26, 1564, but the actual date of Shakespeare 's birth is still unknown. Traditionally, April 23, 1564 had been his accepted birthday, since baptismal occurs three or four days after the birth (Speaight 7). Shakespeare did not attend a real school; instead he attended a grammar school, where he was taught how to read, write, and speak Latin. Once his school years ended, Shakespeare married at age of eighteen to Anne Hathaway, who was eight years older than him. They had three children together, Susanna, and the twins, Hamnet and Judith (Bloom Shakespeare 's Poem and Sonnets 13). Early around in January 1616, William Shakespeare 's health started to get worse. Few months later, on his birthday, April 23, 1916, William Shakespeare died at the age of fifty-two (Speaight 372).
A collection of Shakespeare 's one hundred and fifty-four short poems and a narrative poem called the Sonnets is most profound poetry of all time. The sonnets were



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