Twenty, Thirty-Six, Fifty-Five
I really enjoyed Sonnets 20, 36, and 55. I find the wording that Shakespeare used to be very beautiful, and all of them to be rather romantic. I didn't get the impression that Shakespeare really desired a sexual relationship with the man. Maybe at one point he did, but realized that their emotional connection was far more greater, and much more important than physical pleasure. At one point I'm sure Shakespeare struggled with that circumstance. I got that impression from the Sonnet 36 in the lines "In our two loves there is but one respect/Though in our lives a separable spite/Which, though it alter not love's sole effect/Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight." All three seem to resonate feelings of sadness yet also convey heavy notions of selflessness as well. Shakespeare knows that he loves him, and in the end as long as he has that feeling of love it is all that really matters, despite other circumstances that have deemed conflicting within himself.
very nice
i agree entirly with what you had to say about the emotional relationship being a greater disire for shakespeare than simply the physical act. it proves that shakespeare understood love in many different meanings making his sonnets that much more interesting and giving new depth to some of his works. nice.