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Shakespeare's Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

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Themes: Reconciliation and Love Without Qualification

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But in the last dozen sonnets of the young man group, the spirit of love without qualification and of a reconciliation between the poet and his beloved is reasserted. Thus, the the final piece in this set, Sonnet 126, returns to the theme of the first seventeen poems—the young man's physical beauty and its immortalization through the verses penned by the poet/speaker.

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