Question

What is the purpose of sonnet 40?

Answer 1

Answer:

Shakespeare's Sonnet 40 is one of the sequence addressed to a well-born, handsome young man to whom the speaker is devoted. In this poem, as in the others in this part of the sequence, the speaker expresses resentment of his beloved's power over him. The purpose of the poem is for the speaker to express their resentment of the control love gives to the object of ones love