Sonnet 129 Reflection

This is the first of the dark lady sonnets I examined. It is the third of them all. I researched a little bit of the sonnets before and discovered that Shakespeare seemed to have weird mood swings about his feelings for the dark lady. The first I took as having a negative connotation towards her, the next he seemed in love with her, and now he seems to hate her again. This one is all about the idea of how lust affects men. He seems to have an extremely personal connection to the sonnet as if he and the dark lady had some sort of thing between the two of them, which caused him to go crazy. He says that the idea of lust makes you go crazy before you fulfill your want, you have a brief moment of joy as you fulfill it, and then you regret it afterwards. The first 12 lines are essentially one big rant about it, which furthers my suspicion that he was personally connected.