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Shall I Compare Thee -           William Shakespeare Introduction to the Poet: William Shakespeare was the greatest English Poet  and dramatist the world has ever known. He was a prolific writer during the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages of British theatre. He wrote thirty-eight plays, two narrative poems, one hundred and Fifty-Four sonnets, and a variety of other poems. William Shakespeare continues to be one of the most important literary figures of the English language. Introduction to Shakespearean Sonnet:             The themes of Shakespeare’s sonnets cover the passage of time, love, beauty, and mortality. Shakespeare’s sonnets are classified as Fairyouth, dark lady, and Greek. Shakespeare uses many nature-oriented metaphors in his sonnets. The Shakespearean sonnets are made of three  quatrains  (four-line stanzas) and one  couplet  (a two-line stanz...