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Compare the way the poets write about love and relationships in "Sonnet" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and "Sonnet 138" by William Shakespeare A sonnet is traditionally a love poem, with 14 lines and generally ending with a couplet. The two sonnets I am comparing discuss the nature of love, but portray two completely different relationships between lovers. While Browning's poem is an ode to a pure, simple and almost childlike love, Shakespeare's is a critique of his relationship, in which both sides play a game of double-bluff. This poem mocks the idea of true love. We sense simply from the titles that, while Browning's "Sonnet" is an expression of heartfelt emotions, Shakespeare's "Sonnet 138" is just another meaningless work out of many, perhaps like his mistresses. Browning's work is extremely feminine and is almost certainly about her husband, as she was married, as opposed to the masculine view of women in...

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