Black Beauty is the fictional autobiographical story of its titular protagonist, a horse born in the country and later forced into work pulling a cab in polluted, busy London. The horse's life is recounted in first person as a series of short stories during which the horse's interactions with humans show humanity's capacity for cruelty, kindness, understanding, and violence. The story is one of love and understanding, and Black Beauty eventually retires and finds happiness in the country.
Towards the end of Shakespeares sonnets his preoccupation seems to be less with the fair young blonde and is steered in another direction towards that of a more mysterious dark lady Where sonnets in the fair youth section seem to be more straightforward focussing on beauty and its preservation against time The dark lady section however is far more thoughtful and takes a totally different angle on love in some poems dubbing it a maddening disease In Sonnet 130 Shakespeare instead of exaggerating