Sonnet 147

The speaker compares his love to a sickness in this sonnet. He talks about his struggle to live with his mistress’s unfaithfulness. He is aware of her actions and doesn’t know what to do about it. The love for her is a “fever longing still”. I like how he compares it because it describes his situation very well. In the last couplet, the speaker is sort of in denial saying that his mistress is fair and bright but then says he knows that he’s wrong. This is another one that I’m not too fond of. I’d like to read some more of Shakespeare’s sonnets.