The philosophy of love in Sonnet 138Shakespeare was a superb philosopher, but in his sonnets he was a philosopher of love. Shakespeare fully exposes the experiences of love and its torments in his sonnets. The philosophy of love is that love reconciles everything. Love is evil and good, lies and truth. Love is all there is. It is passion, deception and lies. “Sonnet 138” is a notable example of Shakespeare's philosophy of love. Written as a dramatic monologue, this sonnet (also known as a "song") is a lyric. Like all sonnets, there are fourteen lines, every four lines written as quatrains in abab format. The last two lines are known as the couplet. This sonnet has a staggered structure, with a main clause, a sub-clause, and another sub-clause, all forming a complex sentence. The first six lines mirror each other in thought. When my love swears to be made of truth, I believe her, even though I know she lies, so that she may consider me an ignorant youth, ignorant of the false niceties of the world......