154 sonnets are written in sequence. This sonnet is very popular with Elizabethan poets. The Sonnets is a set of sonnets with a single theme, almost all of which are men's love for a beautiful but unattainable woman. In contrast, Shakespeare's sonnets have no unified theme. Usually divided into two groups, young beauty 126, dark lady 28. However, there is not even consistency in these sets. The tone of the first 17 sonnets is impersonal, urging the recipient to have more children. In sonnets 78-86, Shakespeare expressed his fear of being replaced by his patron. In Sonnets of Lady Dark, several poems are not far from this theme, and the last two are about Cupid. Sonnet 145 is regarded as an early poem written for Anne Hathaway, because it uses ancient rhyme and is simple in vocabulary and syntax, which seems to be a pun in her name.
These sonnets are autobiographical. It was not until the late18th century that critics began to regard sonnets as autobiographies. It was also at this time that Edmund Malone, a scholar who studied Shakespeare, proposed to divide the collection into two parts: beautiful young people and black women.
The preface to quarto sonnets is probably the work of publisher Thomas Thorpe. It is doubtful whether Shakespeare was involved in publishing. Unlike Venus and adonis and Rape of Lydia, these sonnets are not well proved. Structural analysis shows that they were not written at the same time, and Thorpe's order does not represent their writing order. Therefore, any statement based on this order must be regarded as suspicious.
Shakespeare scorned and laughed at love poems in his plays. It seems unlikely that he will pour out his heart in love poems. These plays also show that Shakespeare is of little use to the typical unrequited love theme in Elizabeth's sonnets. He works under the patronage system. Sonnets were popular in1late 6th century and1early 7th century. He may have written these poems to please his patron.