Shakespeare’s Sonnets In sonnets 127 and 147 Shakespeare extensively devotes to examine and explain certain aspects of love, desire and the beloved and their effects in human life. Several sonnets compare being in love for being in a pitiful state: as extolled by the poems, love causes fear, despair, physical discomfort, and alienation, not the pleasing feelings or euphoria that is usually associated with romantic sensations. According to Shakespeare’s primary image, love is compared to malady. For example, his choice of words: disease (1), ill (2), fever (3), diagnosis (5), physician (6), cure (7) physic (8), and death (9), support the notion. For instance “Now with the drops of this most balmy time. My love looks fresh; and Death to me subscribes” offers insights that resolution to the preceding problem is ingrained in understanding and accepting the consequences of love, desire and the beloved. In the sonnets, the narrator rotates between accepting immense love and professing immense worry as he hypothesizes on the young man’s misconduct and the dark lady’s countless sexual partners. This is exemplified through the young man and the dark lady’s affair