Miranda and her father, Prospero, witnessed the storm that caused the shipwreck during Act I, Scene I. Miranda questions her father and accuses him of causing the storm in the ocean.  Why does Prospero start the storm and how is he able to create a storm in the first place?

As we learned in the introduction to Shakespeare’s sonnets, there is much speculation as to who the sonnets are addressed to, and whether or not they are addressed to a male lover or a female.  Where in the sonnets can you see evidence of this cause for speculation?