... such cliché comments. The relationships in both poems detach from clichés and hold true to the statement, "Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder."" Similar to other poets of Shakespeare's time, Sonnet 130, he used a combination of metaphors and similes to portray the eternal ... and his extreme exaggerations. Using Petrarch's conventional method, Shakespeare's poem would have stated that "My mistress' eyes are like the sun; her lips are as red as coral; her cheeks are like roses'; her breasts are white as snow, her voice is like music; she is a goddess."" Shakespeare, however, reverse...

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... the sonnet. For example, the second line of sonnet 130 can be transformed into the following accented patterns. Coral is far more red than her lips" red; The first syllable of "Coral" would be accented and the second syllable unaccented creating a trochiac foot. The last two words in the phrase " ... end-stopped lines throughout the sonnet. Lines 1-6 and 8-9 are end-stopped lines. My mistress" eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips" red; If snow be white, why then here breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. Lines 1-4 are identified by...

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... angel and saint (Malabika 348). The Dark Lady: "She possesses little physical attraction other than her bewitching eyes, has coarse dark hair, and a dark complexion [ ] strikingly red lips, a voice not altogether pleasing, is older than Shakespeare, and known by him to be an adulterous already. Yet he is fascinated, fascinated even while repelled" (Hallett ... not specifically mentioned. Well the most conclusive evidence is Sonnet 130: "My mistress" eyes are nothing like the sun, Coral is far more red, than her lips red, If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun: If hairs be wires, ...

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... easily tempted into murder to fulfill his ambition to the thrown. "Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deepen desirers: The eye wink at the hand yet that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see."(I.4.50) Macbeth is asking that his driven ambition be disguised. It is apparent that he horrified by his own ... waters of the world. "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red." (II.2.60) "All causes shall give way: I am in blood Stepp"d in so far, that,...

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... gentler than a harsh sun, which shines brightly and causes the sun to beat too hotly and raise the temperature too high. He refers to the sun with another metaphor, "the eye of heaven". Shakespeare also says that summer goes by too quickly. He is metaphorically saying that the presence of this person will end shortly because they will die too soon ... a big change from Sonnet 18, where Shakespeare's beloved is thought to be bright and beautiful as the sun, yet not as punishing with its harsh rays. Her lips are not red like coral, her complexion is not white like snow, but her skin is "d...

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... gentler than a harsh sun, which shines brightly and causes the sun to beat too hotly and raise the temperature too high. He refers to the sun with another metaphor, "the eye of heaven". Shakespeare also says that summer goes by too quickly. He is metaphorically saying that the presence of this person will end shortly because they will die too soon ... a big change from Sonnet 18, where Shakespeare's beloved is thought to be bright and beautiful as the sun, yet not as punishing with its harsh rays. Her lips are not red like coral, her complexion is not white like snow, but her skin is "d...

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... praise about the beauty of the beloved; summer tends to unpleasant extremes of windiness and heat, but the beloved is always mild and "more temperate." Summer is personified as the "eye of heaven" with its "gold complexion." The love that is spoken about is compared to everlasting nature. By doing this, the speaker is, at the same time, trying to preserve ... mistress" eyes are nothing like the sun," giving the impression that they have no shine or spark to them. The speaker goes on to say that her lips are not red like "coral" and her hair is like "black wires" on her head. The speaker...

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... because the blood represented Julius Caesar"s ghost and presence; the broken glass was like the crushed empire. The second set was much more dramatic and easily captured by the audience's eye. Whereas, I felt, set one was rather dull and too stereotypical. If the director had set the play during the Roman era, it would have been obvious of the class distinction ... stage to give the effect of a dark night. There were flashes of lighting to give the feeling that bombs were being dropped. Everything to do with Julius Caesar was in red and the best effect was the glass reflecting the blood...

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... blood on his hands, "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red." Lady Macbeth tries to bring him back to his senses by tell him that "A little water clears us of our deed." However, this does not seem the case later in ... cuts his lines into short phrses, again repeating the words "sleep" and "Amen". He is like this until Lady Macbeth takes the situation into her hands and says "tis the eye of childhood." and even though her "hands are of Macbeth's colour" she claims she w...

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