“They are love poetry beyond what was considered love poetry by the Petrarchan sonneteers […] they are, often, ingenious exercises in wit-verbal, rhetorical, logical. They are not in any way poems meant to be overheard. They speak, most of the time, to a persona, perhaps invented, and perhaps derived, in some way from an actual person. They are lyric poems, expressing mainly feelings that any capable reader can respond to as profound and true. But they are poems of the second voice, poems addressed to an audience of one or more […] The persona of the hearer enables the reader to participate in the poem in a more active way than is possible for the [sic] over hearer […] this is the kind of

So thou, thyself outgoing in thy noon,

Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

This is clear evidence that he is not talking to a woman. Not only is he not talking to a woman but he is also giving him marital advice.” The young mans beauty is compared to the sun’s daily journey. Its majesty is worshiped and admired at sunrise and noon (youth and maturity), but is ignored at sunset (old age)”(Gibson 13). Just like the dark lady poems Shakespeare expresses his passionate feelings through the sonnet. You are able too see that this is not a made up story that he wrote while sitting at the park, but a thought out sonnet expressing deep feelings. With such comparisons to the sun you cannot void this as evidence of his true listener.

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