sentences:  Nelles, however, comes to a different conclusion, believing instead that there is no one side or the other.Rather, Nelles argues that "both sides are correct, but in different ways".He finds that only about one-fifth of the sonnets specify the lover's gender, and that the ambiguity of the gender is possibly an important commentary on the view of the speaker on his lover, be it man or woman, and how this lover is described and referred to through these sonnets.