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The Sonnets: Poems of Love
by William Shakespeare
The sentiment "why have you not had a child" comes up surprisingly often in the some of the first sonnets; was that a particularly Elizabethan sentiment, "I love you so much, you are so beautiful, please make a copy of yourself to last once you are gone"? Also, some of the poems seem to be written to or about men; it makes you wonder if Shakespeare is simply putting on a persona in the poem or if...something else is going on. The organization at times seems great and at other times not so much: some of the sonnets clearly follow one another or belong together, almost seeming to run on from the end of one into another and usually those are put together and in order but sometimes, once or twice, a sonnet which seems to talk about one topic will be followed by a sonnet about a different topic only for the first topic to come up again a few sonnets later. It's not clear from this edition if the organization was Shakespeare's or the original printers or later scholars' or whoever's.