Thou Sonnets Art Boring.

When choosing my sonnets to read, I specifically focused on trying to pick the most popular ones. I did this for the purpose that as a future English teacher those are the sonnets most commonly taught in a classroom setting. Thus, I chose and read: 1, 18, 29, 60, 64, 73, 94, 97, 116, 126, 129, 130, 138, and 146.

I suppose I read 130 and 138 in more depth per se because I found those two out of the twelve most interesting, and I specifically chose 130 because I had a funny experience with it in middle school and a classmate wanting a copy of it to give to his girlfriend and the teacher embarrassing him with the fact he misunderstood and that there are much more flattering love poems. However, I think I read all of the sonnets in some depth because I read for understanding rather than just reading it. I used this website to read the sonnets which I found very useful because rather than giving a straight analysis it gave more of just a clarification for things that I may had not understood.

With my title I am not necessarily saying that I think the sonnets are boring because I in fact find many very beautiful and others very interesting (like 151: what is that), but I am more saying that from a view point of any one who didn't have a strange love for all things literature like say a high school boy in his English class, I think that he or she would find the sonnets very boring.