Summary, tone & literary devices. What does sonnet 130 my mistress eyes are nothing like the sun by william shakespeare reveal about the speaker? This poem is all about female beauty and our expectations and stereotypes about the way women ought to look.
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Her eyes are “nothing like the sun,” her lips are less red than coral;
Despite her unattractiveness, the poet's mistress is unsurpassed by any woman.
Sonnet 130 is remarkably graphic in its repudiation of the petrarchan ideal. Shakespeare's sonnet 130 is a (an) a. Sonnet 130 is the poet’s pragmatic tribute to his uncomely mistress, commonly referred to as the dark lady because of her dun complexion. Sonnet 130 is a kind of inverted love poem.
There are many interpretations of this poem, some of them seem to be more or less true, some seem to be written just for the academic purpose.
Though most likely written in the 1590s, the poem wasn't published until 1609. As should be expected of elizabethan sonnets, “sonnet 130” makes use of iambic pentameter. The tone of sonnet 130 is definitely sarcastic. He suggests that his lover’s hair is like black wires.
Sonnet 130 women and femininity.
Shakespeares sonnet 130 my mistress eyes are nothing like the sun with analysis and paraphrase. For example, it was not uncommon to read love poems that compared a woman to a river or the sun. You know how in magazines women pretty much tend to look the same? It is highly sentimental and full of feeling.
I have chosen “sonnet 130” by shakespeare to analyze.
This sonnet compares the speaker’s lover to a number of other beauties—and never in the lover’s favor. Like many other sonnets from the same period, shakespeare's poem wrestles with beauty, love, and desire. The two final lines draw the sonnet to its conclusion. Confession of love for a harlot.
Despite her unattractiveness the poets mistress is unsurpassed by any woman.
Playful expression of faults to irritate the lady. He tries to find a more authentic, realistic way to talk about these things in. Scholars believe that the woman is shakespeare’s mysterious mistress. In sonnet 130, the theme women and femininity is connected to the idea of appearances.
It’s unclear who the woman is that shakespeare refers to in “sonnet 130.” shakespeare never reveals her name.
Throughout the sonnet, the speaker presents his lover as an unattractive mistress with displeasing features, but in fact, the speaker is ridiculing, through the use of vivid imagery, the conventions of love poems and the way woman are portrayed through the use of false. He can insult her as much as he wants, so long as he says but i loveee youuuu at the end. If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. In “sonnet 130,” shakespeare describes the woman he loves as a real person instead of exaggerating her beauty.
They all fit into a very narrow definition of what is beautiful.
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. In the second quatrain, the speaker says. Shakespeare's sonnet 130 with critical notes. My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” summary.
The norton anthology of english literature:
By saying this, he is implying that it is ok for him to comment on a woman’s appearance in any manner he would like. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun. Sonnet 130 was written by the english poet and playwright william shakespeare. Whereas another poet might describe a woman’s eyes as being like the sun, the speaker of “sonnet 130” rejects this comparison completely:
Sonnet 130 satirizes the concept of ideal beauty that was a convention of literature and art in general during the elizabethan era.
Therefore, the imagery used throughout the poem would have. The repellent details of the woman’s shadow of the petrarchan lady, who is here identified as an impossible ideal, constructed as an aggregate of inhuman similes that deny the reality of women’s bodies and the sexual disgust they could evoke. My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground. The speaker describes the eyes of the woman he loves, noting that they are not like the sun.
Who is the dark lady in sonnet 130?
In shakespeare’s sonnet 130, the speaker ponders the beauty, or the lack thereof, of his lover. Skin that is literally as white a snow would probably be scary. (line 3) this line points out a particularly unrealistic stereotype about women's beauty. The woman in sonnet 130 can be described as:_____.
In sonnet 130, shakespeare claims that he does not care if his woman is ugly, she is still special to him.
Most sonnets, including others written by shakespeare, praised women and practically deified them. Theme of sonnet 130 862 words | 4 pages. It implies that the woman is very beautiful indeed, but suggests that it is important for this poet to view the woman he loves realistically. In sonnet 130, shakespeare depicts his mistress as a dark lady who is deficient in beauty as per society’s standard.
At first, his description seems almost insulting.
As any she belied with false compare. The poet wants to view his. In the first quatrain, the beautiful image of a woman usually created during a romantic poem (i.e, having red lips, pure skin, silky hair) is parodied as he portrays his mistress as plain and not following normal beauty regulations. Satire on the deficiencies of the speaker's mistress.
“sonnet 130” indicates this intimate relationship between the.
The woman does not appear to be particularly beautiful, young, or aristocratic, but the speaker is in a sexual relationship with her anyway. Belittling of a loved one for the amusement of friends. What is the tone used in the sonnet?, at first glance, the mood and tone of shakespeare’s sonnet 18 is one of deep love and affection. Volume one seventh edition (2000)
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