I prefer the Dark Lady sonnets to the other two types because, instead of idealizing love, these poems address it in all its contradictions, flaws, and unsettling aspects. In these sonnets, William Shakespeare presents love not as an emotion, but as a complex experience intertwined with desire, guilt, and self-awareness; the speaker's open acknowledgment of their own weaknesses feels more honest and human to me. The ironic and at times harsh language breaks traditional love clichés, while the poems' emotional intensity and risk-taking courage make them stronger for me. Therefore, the Dark Lady sonnets offer a more modern, intimate, and impactful expression of love than the controlled admiration in the Fair Youth sonnets and the detached, mythological abstraction of Sonnets 000–000.