Sorry to say, I much prefer his wit and tendency for sarcasm in his plays. I think that Shakespeare even thought his own poems seemed trite (if I recall, they were often written by request). Hence when he wrote Sonnet 130, he wrote "And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare." The whole poem is about reality and more indicative of real love than anything else.

Stephanie

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.--Ralph Waldo Emerson