In the sonnets we read this week all of them talked about fighting love and finally giving into the power of love. One sonnet stuck out to me the most. From Pamphilia to Amphilanthus sonnet 16 was the one that I thought the most interesting. Usually in stories you here a man resisting to fall in love, but in this sonnet you hear of a woman resisting to fall in love. In the sonnet she says, “I love, and must: So farewell liberty.” She is basically saying if I fall in love I lose my freedom. She tries to reject love and hold on to her freedom, but by the end of the sonnet she gives into love. This is very true because so many times you see woman who fall and love and give up everything. They give up their freedom in a sense to be with a guy because they love him. Personally I have seen many women give up going out or even talking to their old friends and going out with them because they have a boyfriend and their boyfriend doesn’t want them to go out and only wants them to hang out with them. In this sonnet I see a lot of truth, but I also see the down fall because without love how can you love? I mean isn’t that what the Beatles were talking about “all you need is love, love is all you need.” As humans we need to love and be loved without love we would feel lonely. Love is not something to run from if you have found love embrace it and I think that was the point in which this author was talking about because in the end she gives into love.
