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The sonnet was largely used as a vehicle for writing about love.Explore the way in which different poets use the sonnet for this thematic concern.
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... The sonnet was largely used as a vehicle for writing about love. Explore the way in which different poets use the sonnet for this thematic concern, drawing parallel and contrasts where appropriate. Sonnets were written as a way to express someone's feelings and a lot were about the emotion love that they feel. A regular theme used in the sixteenth century, particularly by Sidney in Loving In Truth and With How Sad Steps and Spenser in One Day I wrote her name, was writing about unrequited love. However, over time sonneteers began to change the familiar theme of unrequited love, to writing about other aspects of love, for example Shakespeare's Sonnet 116. John Donne also changed writing just about love in sonnets to including religion for example in Holy Sonnet XIV. In the sonnet Loving In Truth, Sir Philip Sidney describes his love for a particular woman. Beginning, "loving in truth"
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