CAJ | 학술논문

It is a common knowledge that Shakespeare's 154 sonnets are divided into 3 parts: 1st, 1-126, to his handsome young friend,2nd, 127-152, to his dark haired lady, and the 3rd, 153-154, to Cupid, the god of love in Roman mythology. The first 126 sonnets are analyzed and further arranged into 5 parts: 1st, 1-26, marriage and family; 2nd, 27-55, adultery and forgiving; 3rd, 56-77, the coldness of their friendship and the decay of the society; 4th, 78-101, the competation between Shakespeare and another poet; 5th, 102-126, excusing his friend for having been sometime silent. Through the analysis of the 3 famous sonnets and other famous lines, the conclusion is that the theme of the different contents of all the sonnets is love.