Response to Sonnet 87

The summarization of Sonnet 87 can be said to be as simple as “you are too good for me, and because of this, I do not deserve you.” This in coalition of the numerous examples of financial terminology can be assumed to say that wealth separates the two parties being spoken of in the sonnet. The desperate voice of the poem makes it seem like there is a pity party going on where the speaker is fishing for compliments, which contrasts from Sonnet 55 where the speaker displayed a great egotism. This poem also comes right after the “rival poet” sequence, so the competition may have hurt the speaker’s self-esteem, if they were the same speaker. This sonnet also ends most of the lines with a verbs, I am not sure if this was intentional, but if it was, it could signify that the sonnet is an active being that with many verbs in the gerund form, is ongoing presently, meaning possibly that the issues in this poem have been ongoing.