I wrote this poem for our English Sonnet homework.

While writing this sonnet I was inspired by my relationship with my roommate at Lawrenceville School, whom I find to be a tough person to live with. I touched upon how he is messy in the room, does his homework after lights out and I compared him to devil because he is mostly unresponsive in the room, making him annoying and hard to communicate with. I chose the Shakespearean sonnet due to its relatively easier line structure and I wanted to use the last couplet in the end to show how I actually felt about my roommate which is rather positive compared to the rest of the poem. Shakespearean sonnet enabled me to use the three quatrains to talk about different examples of my roommate’s behavior. I wanted to tell that even though my roommate has some disturbing qualities, he is innocent and in some ways similar to me, away from home and subject to many responsibilities, therefore should be tolerated even if it requires a bit of effort.