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Sonnet 130 By William Shakespeare. Shakespeare's sonnets comprise 154 poems in sonnet form that were published in 1609 but likely written over the course of several years. The years that William Shakespeare was writing poems were the 'Golden Age' of British literature. Poetry was mostly in sonnet form with some metaphysical poems as well. This period can be split into four sub-sets: The Elizabethan Age, The Jacobean Age, The Caroline Age and the commonwealth period. During the Jacobean period (1603-1649) this was the period that Shakespeare sonnets were published. A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem, usually in iambic pentameter, with a varied rhyme scheme. The two main types of sonnet are the Petrarchan (or Italian) and the Shakespearean. I feel in this poem Shakespeare is trying to challenge convention on sonnet poems. Common sonnet poems will talk about love or their lover and will give many false comparisons of their beauty. In...

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