Our love songs say the same thing to us that Shakespeare’s sonnets said to his audience. The difference is not in the quality of expression, but in its relevance. The language that sounds so stilted and high-flown when we read Shakespeare was the common vernacular of his time. To an Elizabethan, it would have sounded perfectly natural. A young Elizabethan in love would hear his own emotions put into words when he read a sonnet, the same way a young lover today hears his own in a well-written love song. Love is still love, and good poetry is still good poetry. Only the idiom is different.

There is no contest……….Shakesphere was from another time and another launguage. Todays music about LOVE makes sense. It also affects our mood .