out an ideal love while "Sonnet 147" is about a love/hate relationship. The use of "Sonnet 144" helps to demonstrate the basis of these two sonnets, which are Shakespeare's relationships with a young man and a dark woman. These two poems, although on the same topic, reveal to the reader the duality of Shakespeare's heart. He is in love with two people and manages to forgive one for a serious transgression but not the other although the crime was the same. Without the Sonnets, few historians would be able to reconstruct the life of a poet so great that he is often simply referred to as the Poet....
