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Title: Shakespeare's sonnet 130
Description: Summary of Shakespeare's sonnet 130
Description: Summary of Shakespeare's sonnet 130
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Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 mocks the conventions of showy and flowery courtly
sonnets in its realistic portrayal of his mistress
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It was
customary to praise the beauty of the object of one’s affections with comparison with
beautiful things found in nature and heaven
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This sonnet compares the poet's mistress to a
number of natural beauties; each time making a point of his mistress’ obvious
inadequacy in such comparisons; she can't hope to stand up to the beauties of the
natural world
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His mistress, the
poet says, is nothing like this conventional image, but is as lovely as a woman
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The first two quatrains compare the speaker's mistress to the aspects of
nature like snow or coral; each comparison ending unflatteringly for the mistress
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His sonnet aims to do the opposite my indicating that his mistress is the ideal object of
his affections because of her genuine qualities, and that she is more worthy of his love
than the paramours of other poets who are more fanciful
Title: Shakespeare's sonnet 130
Description: Summary of Shakespeare's sonnet 130
Description: Summary of Shakespeare's sonnet 130