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3 unusual facts about Sonnet 154


Sonnet 153

Sonnets 153 and 154 are filled with rather bawdy double entendres of sex followed by contraction of a venereal disease.

Sonnet 154

As the last in the famed collection of sonnets written by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare from 1592-1598, Sonnet 154 is most often thought of in a pair with the previous sonnet, number 153.

Thomas Thorpe

Thorpe was probably responsible for the arrangement of the sonnets, with 1-17 being the "procreation sonnets", 18-126 being love sonnets to the Fair Youth (for the most part), and 127-154 being written on a variety of subjects, including politics, sex, and the Dark Lady.



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