In this essay I will explore William Shakespeare's 154 sonnets that were first published in 1609. I will compare the overall themes and moods of these sonnets and point out the similarities and differences that each he shares them. I think the overarching theme in most of the 154 poems that make up his sonnets is love and friendship. William Shakespeare produced many literary and theatrical works in his time, some of his most famous works include “Romeo and Juliet”, “Hamlet” and “Macbeth”. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. When he was 18 years old he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a career in London as an actor, writer and part owner of a theater company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men he moved to Stratford around 1613 at the age of 49, where he died three years later. There aren't many records of Shakespeare's private life, and there are some questions about things like his sexuality, his gender, and whether he wrote or wrote. minus some of his plays or whether they were written for him and he simply took credit for them. Shakespeare's sonnets were published in 1609 and were the last non-dramatic works he produced to be printed. No one is exactly sure when each of the 154 sonnets was written, but evidence shows that when he began writing them they were for private use only and were never intended to be published. Even before the two sonnets he never wanted to see appeared in The Passionate Pilgrim in 1599, Francis Meres had mentioned, in 1598, Shakespeare's "sweet sonnets among his private friends". He seems to have two different ideas in these sonnets: one about his obsession with a married woman whom he gives... in the center of the card ...... the poet wishes the well-wishing adventurer in Setting Forth. TT" The abbreviation "TT" refers to the editor of the Sonnets, Thomas Thorpe. But scholars disagree about who "Mr." is. W. H" was most people think he is Henry Wriothsley, Earl of Southampton, because Shakespeare had dedicated two poems to him earlier in his life. Others believe the letters are about William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, who was the person Shakespeare wrote his First Folio to which of the sonnets could be written is a mystery. In Shakespeare's time, a poet needed a person to support him with a good income, since an author hardly earned from any. work that he published. The point is that Shakespeare must have had someone living with him and supporting him and this person was probably the person to whom the poet dedicated his sonnets...