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Love is the radiating centre of the Sonnets, lived and explored in all its aspects, from the highest idealisation to the abjection of betrayal and guilt.
There are poems which project it in a dimension which is almost metaphysical, like those in which the Fair Youth is celebrated as the incarnation of supreme beauty.
But in the Sonnets love and beauty rarely remain in the limbo of the idyll, forced to measure themselves against real situations and feelings, in an alternation of exaltation and demoralisation, hopes and fears, dreams and frustrations.
The Sonnets don’t form one long poem, but present macro-sequences or big cycles through which it is possible to see the articulation of a story and the intensity and the tension of true dramatic scenes.
The result though isn’t an organic tale, but episodic, sometimes without precise passages, sometimes with brakes and resumptions, with scenes which are connected between themselves as in a cinematic montage.
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