Topic > Analysis of Love for Shakespeare's Dark Lady - 979

This means that the poet's approaches to love remain the same. At one point, in the sonnets addressed to the young man, he portrays beauty as carrying a great responsibility. The poet has experienced what he considers "the marriage of true minds", also known as true love, that his love remains strong and that he believes it is eternal. Nothing will stop their love, as in symbols like all the ships, stars and stormy seas that fill the landscape of the poem and so on, what can affect their love. The poet is too attracted by the beauty of the young man, even if this indicates truly bad behavior. But elsewhere, Shakespeare mocks the dark lady in sonnet 130. He explains that his lover, the dark lady, has strings for hair, bad breath, dull décolleté, a heavy step, pale lips, and so away, but for him True love, the sonnet suggests, begins when we accept our lovers for what they are and what they are not. But other critics may not agree with this and for them beauty may define something