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One cannot read Shakespeare’s Sonnets coherently without understanding the framing story, which is based on Arthur Golding’s translation of the story of Narcissus and Echo from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

Echo falls in love with Narcissus and, unable to initiate a conversation, follows him in the hopes of an opportunity to repeat words that will tell him how she feels.