There are many elements in Shakespeare's sonnets: life, selfishness, sadness, but the most important of all is love. The way he describes love in his sonnets is very sensual, a bit like infatuation. He also uses elements of nature to describe the beauty of the woman or women in his sonnets. In sonnet 19 the speaker states “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? You are more lovable and more temperate. (Shakespeare Lines 1-2) He is comparing a woman to a summer's day which is commonly assumed to be beautiful, bright, delightful and then they claim that she is fairer and milder than a summer's day. Throughout the sonnet the speaker basically says that summer itself does not last long enough and that her eternal summer will not fade, and she will not lose her beauty with time. She will forever be beautiful to him and no dark cloud, no rainy day, will make him lose sight of her beauty. In sonnet 15 the speaker says, "When I perceive that men like plants grow, cheered and restrained even by heaven itself, boast in their youthful sap, in height diminish, and wear their courageous state out of memory." (Shakespeare lines 5-8) What the speaker is saying in these lines is that, when he observes men growing like plants, he realizes that they are encouraged and raised from the same heaven, wallowing in their youthful behavior and then declining when they are at their peak. height, then fade away until their glory is no longer remembered. Shakespeare also uses some religious elements in his sonnets. In sonnet 29 the speaker cries, "I all alone mourn my outcast state, and disturb the deaf sky with my useless cries." (Shakespeare lines 2-3) He is saying that when he is alone he cries to himself and to God with useless cries. He sort of says… halfway through the paper… he goes back to the writing and then he can see if the writing itself got better or worse as the world turned. He also states that he is sure that past writers have glorified worse topics than the current writer. Shakespeare's sonnets covered a wide variety of topics and included similar content in some sonnets. Shakespeare is a man who had many confusing relationships, whether real or fictional, they were all complicated in some way. It also highlights different types of difficulties and trials in life and turns the bad situation into a good one. His sonnets reveal parts of himself that he would never come out to tell you in conversation, you had to read it, and when you read it you have to be fascinated by it in some way and you have to feel what he felt to be able to do that. understand the true meaning of what he is writing about.