During the Elizabethan Age, the beginning of non-religious dramas came into literature as well as sonnets with dialogue such as “The Nymph’s Reply”, a parody to “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” written by Christopher Marlowe. William Shakespeare, the writer of 154 sonnets but most widely known for his work by the name of Romeo and Juliet, has made his mark on British poetry during the Elizabethan Age/ Renaissance. The two British sonnets being compared and or contrasted are sonnet I (one) and sonnet XXIV (twenty- four) and they will be compared by the type of sonnet, theme, and use of symbols. To begin with, the first topic is what kind of sonnet both I and XXIV are, which could be one of the two: Shakespearean or English and or Petrarchan
