William Shakespeare was undoubtedly the most famous writer of all time. He has influenced many generations with his plays, poems, short stories and even sonnets. While many of his sonnets appear initially to have a concrete and material meaning, on further analysis, they deal with intense and deeper subjects such as relationships, time, and death. Two of his sonnets, Sonnet 4 and Sonnet 64, are two such sonnets. Mr. Shakespeare, in Sonnet 4 and Sonnet 64, implores the reader …showed first 75 words of 924 total…

…showed last 75 words of 924 total…fear at the end of the final quatrain. It states "Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away." In conclusion, Sonnet 64 raises the question whether it would be better to never love someone rather than to love someone and risk suffering the pain of losing them. In that way, the sonnets differ greatly. One is about giving and sharing, the other about separating one's self from society.