Which is your favorite shakespeare sonnet?

Question

which one of all his beautifully written sonnets do you like the most?

for those of you who are going to write that they all stink, its ok, i understand that its too hard for you to understand such fine literature.

Answer 1

This one: It was in the movie "Sense & Sensibility". I like it because it's about how love should not change because you find something wrong with the person or because things don't go exactly as planned. That's a simplistic way to put it, but I'm not good with words at the moment. It's just a beautiful poem.

Sonnet CXVI: Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds

1Let me not to the marriage of true minds
2Admit impediments. Love is not love
3Which alters when it alteration finds,
4Or bends with the remover to remove.
5O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
6That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
7It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
8Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken..
9Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
10Within his bending sickle's compass come;
11Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
12But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
13If this be error and upon me prov'd,
14I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.

Answer 2

"When my love swears she is made of truth
I do believe her, though I know she lies
That she might think me some untutor'd youth..."
better look it up before I get some words wrong. Anyway, it's sonnet 138. Love the wordplay!

SONNET 138
When my love swears that she is made of truth
I do believe her, though I know she lies,
That she might think me some untutor'd youth,
Unlearned in the world's false subtleties.
Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although she knows my days are past the best,
Simply I credit her false speaking tongue:
On both sides thus is simple truth suppress'd.
But wherefore says she not she is unjust?
And wherefore say not I that I am old?
O, love's best habit is in seeming trust,
And age in love loves not to have years told:
Therefore I lie with her and she with me,
And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.

Answer 3

29


When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf Heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least:
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee,--and then my state
(Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings'.

Answer 4

I agree with 29.