Sonnet 106 (Shakespeare) Summary
William Shakespeare

Sonnet 106 (Shakespeare) Overview

Shakespeare's "Sonnet 106" is a Shakespearean sonnet published with Shakespeare's 154 sonnets in a folio by Thomas Thorpe. There are 13 surviving copies today. Most of the sonnets address themes of love. The first hundred sonnets are dedicated to an unknown "fair youth," with whom the speaker seems to have a homoerotic fascination. Sonnet 106, though, imagines love within a long history of praise and creative expression, all insufficient to the emotion itself.