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Sonnet 15
This sonnet introduces that time has ravaged people and the author tries everything to prevent it from happening. “Men as plants increase” means that men grow as plants grow. “Wasteful Time debateth with decay” tells that time is corroding men, which makes the author very uncomfortable. Therefore, the speaker exerts all to stop this, and he “engraft you new,” giving men new life without growing old. In conclusion, this is a sonnet that expresses speaker’s love and care for “you”.
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Sonnet 46
This sonnet portrays the conflicts between eyes and heart. Both want to get the attention from “you”. “Mine eye my heart thy picture’s sight would bar.” Eyes prevent the heart from seeing “you”; “My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.” Heart prevents eye from understanding “you”. However, they come to an agreement that they enjoy “you” together. “Mine eye’s due is thy outward part.” Eye takes the appearance of you; “My heart’s right thy inward love of heart.” Heart accepts the inside of you. Therefore, everything is fine.
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Sonnet 116
This sonnet basically defines what love is. “It is the star to every wandering bark,” love guides every lost ship and person. “Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks,” love is not the mercy of time. “Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,” love does not change with time. In addition, the speaker proves his statement again in the end. “If this be error and upon me proved， never writ, nor no man ever loved.” No men would love if he were wrong; consequently, what he says must be truth. Love is what love is.
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Character Study
Charlemagne
Shakespeare Sonnets

A movie about life of Charlemagne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9AMpIU-JYw
This is a series of videos that introduce Charlemagne overall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSYUgI28U2Q

Charlemagne made Latin the standard written and spoken language. He also played a key role in preserving much of the literary heritage of ancient Rome. Charlemagne was a vert lighthearted man, who enjoyed the company of others. As I mentioned in primary, his favorite was roast meat, which he made people hunt and take the best for him. Since he paid much attention on education, he respected teachers and educators a lot. He treated people who taught him with great conditions. Charlemagne took a serious interest in scholarship, promoting the liberal art at the court, ordering that his children and grandchildren be well-educated, and even studying himself under the tutelage of Paul the Deacon, from whom he learned grammar.His great scholarly failure, as Einhard relates, was his inability to write: when in his old age he began attempts to learn—practicing the formation of letters in his bed during his free time on books and wax tablets he hid under his pillow—"his effort came too late in life and achieved little success", and his ability to read – which Einhard is silent about, and which no contemporary source supports—has also been called into question.
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ch-Co/Charlemagne.html#b
http://www.timelessmyths.com/arthurian/charlemagne.html#Charlemagne
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Europeweb/factfile/Unique-facts-Europe35.htm
Dutton, Paul Edward, Charlemagne's Mustache

Charlemagne made Latin the standard written and spoken language. He also played a key role in preserving much of the literary heritage of ancient Rome. Charlemagne was a vert lighthearted man, who enjoyed the company of others. As I mentioned in primary, his favorite was roast meat, which he made people hunt and take the best for him. Since he paid much attention on education, he respected teachers and educators a lot. He treated people who taught him with great conditions. Charlemagne took a serious interest in scholarship, promoting the liberal art at the court, ordering that his children and grandchildren be well-educated, and even studying himself under the tutelage of Paul the Deacon, from whom he learned grammar.His great scholarly failure, as Einhard relates, was his inability to write: when in his old age he began attempts to learn—practicing the formation of letters in his bed during his free time on books and wax tablets he hid under his pillow—"his effort came too late in life and achieved little success", and his ability to read – which Einhard is silent about, and which no contemporary source supports—has also been called into question.

Summary
Charlemagne was a very temperature person, who controlled drinking seriously, and he also abominated drunkenness on others. But food was another case for him. He was fond of food a lot, also complaining that food accelerated his death. As recorded, his favorite dish was roast, which he almost ate everyday. While reading, Charlemagne enjoyed listening to music or reading. His most favor was "The City of God".
He never allowed himself drink more than three cups of wine at one time. After a midnight meal, he always had some fruit and one cup of wine, preparing for rest. Interestingly, Charlemagne woke up four to five times every night.
Charlemagne had great talent of learning foreign languages. Although he was able to express his thoughts in precise and utmost words clearness, he paid much attention in mastering Latin and Greek. He could use Latin as well as his native language, and he could understand Greek decently. In addition, teachers who taught him liberal arts were revered and honored by him a lot. When he was already very old, he still took lessons in grammer of the deacon Peter of Pisa. What's more, he also spent much time on rhetoric, dialectics, and especially astronomy. Writing was also one of his life habits.
It was his habit to take food during lent (forty weeks from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday) at the seventh hour of a day. Sometimes, he held meeting while he was eating. Charlemagne also studied scriptures a lot in his leisure time. At times he ordered a lot of food and spent long time studying by himself. As a king, he promoted learning and education very much, and he build a lot of schools for children to receive education,
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/stgall-charlemagne.asp
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/einhard.asp#Habits