... 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 beauty of his mistress. However unlike Petrarch whose poems were written as a ... left out exaggerated metaphors. Shakespeare took a different approach in writing his poem and used a comical tone when comparing his mistress to a number of beauties. Sonnet 130 became a satire on Petrarch's poetry and his extreme exaggerations. Using Petrarch's conventional method, Shakespeare's poem...

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... of the most straightforward poems out of all the 154 sonnets. Sonnet 130 is one of the Shakespearian sonnets. Shakespeare's sonnets were published in 1609 but some of them were written a bit earlier. The first 126 sonnets are written to a man of great ... be involved with the woman romantically. No one really knows how to explain Shakespeare's life most people think he explains it through his sonnets. In the first two lines in sonnet 130 Shakespeare talks about a woman. This woman is not the prettiest woman Shakespeare has ever seen. The first line states, "My mistress' eyes are nothin...

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Shakespeare Sonnet 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 ... saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare. In Shakespeare's Sonnet number one-hundred and thirty he makes fun of the typical love poem. Even when Shakespeare wrote these Sonnets the metaphors used in love poems were considered cliché, as ... they still are today, but they were an accepted way to express fee...

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Sonnet 130-Analysis and Summary The poem begins in describing a woman, his mistress to be exact. And he seems to have a disdainful outlook of the woman's beauty. On the other ... any normal human being does. He finishes by saying that he loves her for her own beauty and not that of some made up fantasy. Literary Terms In this sonnet Shakespeare uses imagery to give the reader an excellent view of his mistress. He uses a simile and many metaphors as the core of his poem. Such things asIf ... , her breasts are dun? andblack wires grow on her head.? Shakespeare also uses a central theme in the ...

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