Shakespeare used little discretion in his sonnets and plays regarding his expressions of desire. His sonnets tell the story of what is believed to be a romantic interlude with a young male (Shakespeare's Sonnets, 2011), but in Sonnet 130 Shakespeare espouses the female form in explicit, if unflattering, detail (2006. p . 507). . His description of his love is much kinder. One of Shakespeare's most famous lines “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? /Although you are more amiable and more temperate:” (2006, p. 499) is much more flattering and represents the desire he feels for another