On The Sonnets, Paradise Lost, Or The Sunjata

    . Are Sonnets 116 and 130, written by Shakespeare, utilizing and focusing more on Humanist concepts, such as Platonism and Neo-Platonism through the semblance of courtly love, or do they mostly promote Individualism through his lyrics as he declares that "If this be error and upon me prov'd, I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd"? Do you think Shakespeare is writing to a lover, or to only a friend? Justify your answer. How do these different philosophies impact the notion of the Renaissance's establishment of a "rebirth" of the culture based on your interpretation?