Shakespeare, William - Sonnet 120

This sonnet is taken from the collection “Shakespeares Sonnets” (1609) which comprises 154 poems of the famous author and playwright.

Shakespeare´s sonnets are considered very modern, not only due to formal criteria (as addressing a man instead of a woman in sonnets 1-126), but also due to their topics (like jealousy, being walked out on, growing old etc.)

The lifetime of Shakespeare (1564-1616), which is known as the Elizabethan Age, is characterized by a pursuit of perfection that results from a fear of chaos. This can also be seen in the structure of the author´s work.

• The `transparent interpretation´