Following the sonnets of the young man, are the poems about a beautiful and dark woman, and the narrator’s irresistible attractions to her. This is not what he called love, but simply lust and the narrator become entrapped in his desire and hunger for the woman while also becoming disgusted with himself for allowing himself to become that way. The narrator describes the dark lady as being promiscuous and every man’s desire, with that he becomes drawn and repelled against her beauty. However the conclusion of that plot was that the narrator claimed his lust for her as an incurable disease that can be temporarily sustained just by a look of her eyes.
In sonnet 20, the speaker feels and desirable attraction for the young man that can be explained by the fact that Nature herself made a young woman and fell in love with her. The penis came on as a late addition but like the sonnet insisted, everything else but the penis on the man was feminine.
In sonnet 127, the Dark Lady is introduced, and now the narrator finds himself attracted to a beautiful fair woman. Shakespeare denies all other candidates and states that with all of the cosmetics of his time; it is hard to tell which of the women true beauties are. The first sonnet that begins the rest about the Dark Lady is a sonnet that discusses true beauty against false and how Shakespeare is in awe that she had in fact caught his eye. Also, because she was a different color than Shakespeare himself, he was wary on his choice but he did not fall back in pursuing her.