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Sonnet 76

            In the final quatrain, the poet tells his recipient that he always writes on one theme--his love and the one he loves. For this reason, the poet finds his best tool in reworking his words and the familiar form of the sonnet. Even as a child is a form of expressing true love (an idea from the early sonnets), his sonnets as his offspring express the poet's feelings in his own unique way. He may have to reuse words and images but he hopes that each new time he can improve the word combinations and embellishments to heighten his attempt to communicate love. .
             The final couplet brings forth the idea that as the sun rises new each day with all its bright freshness while at the same time it is as old as creation, so the poet's love sonnets are both new and old in what they are saying. The form may be old, but there is freshness is each new attempt to express himself using the boundaries of its form as a pattern for fully describing and communicating the old ideas of love which have always existed but continue to be new with the dawning of each day in which they continue. .
             Through the sonnet's arguments, Shakespeare justifies the continued use of this form for his expressions of love. He argues that there is no need to explore new faddish forms when the method he uses offers him the capabilities to fully express himself. Shakespeare recognized the power of working a form to its ultimate expression as opposed to dabbling in a variety of forms without fully mastering any of them. In the sonnet, Shakespeare found his highest capability for expressing love. .
            


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