Shakespeare's Birthday: Shakespeare's Sonnets

All together, Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets. Most are poems of admiration and love for an anonymous second party. Many scholars have surmised that this person may have been male, and that Shakespeare, himself, may have been bisexual... but there's no direct evidence of that, to date.

Ten of the most beloved selections from Shakespeare's 154 sonnets.

Each individual sonnet's entry on the Cliff'sNotes page provides a summary of the sonnet's themes, tone, imagery, etc.

This page provides a brief analysis for each of the 154 sonnets.