Compare A & S To Sonnet 130

Shakespeare’s sonnet 130, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” and Pablo Neruda’s “My ugly love” are popularly known to describe beauty in a way hardly anyone would write: through the truth. It’s a common fact that modern lovers and poets speak or write of their beloved with what they and the audience would like to hear, with kind and breathtaking words and verses. Yet, Shakespeare and Neruda, honest men as they both were, chose to write about what love truly is, it matters most what’s on the inside rather than the outside. The theme of true beauty and love are found through Shakespeare and Neruda’s uses of imagery, structure, and tone.

Clyde Saligumba Professor Dr. Glomski HON 121 6 March, 2024 “Dim Lady” and “Sonnet 130”: The Purpose of Unflattering Comparisons Inspiration comes from anywhere. Authors will derive ideas from other spectacular works and incorporate them into their own. Whether it’s to solidify the central idea or completely combat it, authors take other works into consideration. William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130” takes a different perspective on love than previous works of the time period.

Power influences the dynamics of a relationship because it shows who the dominant partner is and how they interact with each other. The poem, “Sonnet 130,” by William Shakespeare is about the speaker comparing his lover to a variety of other natural beauties while never in his lover’s favor. The author uses these humorous comparisons to describes the person he loves. The next poem, “My Papa’s Waltz,” by Theodore Roethke is about the father’s love for the speaker and the speaker’s fear of this powerful event. Therefore, Shakespeare and Roethke uses diction to convey the complexities of power and their effect on the dynamics of a relationship.

The Astrophil and Stella sonnets 1 and 15 contemplate the author’s awareness as he tries to find inspiration to write. By exploring their own inspirations, in Shakespeare’s Sonnets 116 and 130, and “The Indifferent” mock the Petrarchan sonnet, whose theme of comparing women to things that are generally accepted as beautiful was used in many works of the English Renaissance, including: Amoretti sonnet 64, “The Sun Rising,” “Song,” “To His Coy Mistress,” and “Upon Julia’s Clothes.” In another venture of exploration into the author’s inspirations, Volpone was created as a comedy which parodies classical masque plays, such as Doctor Faustus, by characterizing the legacy hunters as birds of

“Sonnet 116” written by William Shakespeare is focusing on the strength and true power of love. Love is a feeling that sustainable to alterations, that take place at certain points in life, and love is even stronger than a breakup because separation cannot eliminate feelings. The writer makes use of metaphors expressing love as a feeling of mind not just heart as young readers may see it. To Shakespeare love is an immortal felling that is similar to a mark on a person’s life.

Despite the similarities, “Sonnet 130” has a slight twist at the end that the reader does not expect. Even though the poem is steeped with negative connotation, the speaker reveals that he still loves his companion. When the reader breaks down the poem line by line, the speaker is saying that even though his lover is rather unattractive, he still loves her for who she is: “And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare” (13-14). This can also be a life lesson, showing how people sometimes only focus on what is on the outside, but it is the personality, trust, and other important characteristics that really matter in life. On the contrary, West focuses on a negative connotation and his hatred throughout the whole entire song by saying how cold she is because of the heartbreak he went through.

     During the Renaissance, it was common for poets to employ Petrarchan conceit to praise their lovers. Applying this type of metaphor, an author makes elaborate comparisons of his beloved to one or more very dissimilar things. Such hyperbole was often used to idolize a mistress while lamenting her cruelty. Shakespeare, in Sonnet 18, conforms somewhat to this custom of love poetry, but later breaks out of the mold entirely, writing his clearly anti-Petrarchan work, Sonnet 130.

This paper will speak of two literary works, Song of Songs and Sonnet 130, analyzing how they compare and contrast to one another in terms of their literary voice by examining their use of literary techniques. Song of Songs unveils the true nature of what the Bride loves about the Bridegroom using similes and imagery to convey her deep expression of laudatory by not only revealing who he is to her as a person but why she loves and praises him so, whereas in Sonnet 130 Shakespeare expresses harsh truth towards his mistress’ beauty with the use of similes, metaphors, and prose to develop the theme of how his mistress’ is not considered the perfect woman but that he, Shakespeare, loves her for her. In Song of Songs, it is shown that the literary

In “Sonnet 130: My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing like the Sun,” William Shakespeare uses the literary devices of scent and audible imagery, simile, metaphor, and alliteration to show that a person should be loved for what kind of person they are at heart, not for their appearance. To start, the text states, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” (I.i). This line uses a simile to compare his mistress’ eyes to the radiant, beautiful sun. The eyes of his mistress are not beautiful like the sun. This connects to the theme of the poem by explaining that his mistress does not meet society's beauty standards.

If I was the recipient of the two sonnets, I would feel both honored and loved, while simultaneously offended and hurt. Shakespeare spends the majority of both sonnets borderline bullying his subjects. Offering only a slight rebuttal in the closing couplets of both sonnets. In Sonnet 130, Shakespeare details the mundaneness of his love, speaking of how she is not special, and he recognizes that there are many things better than her. These descriptions are countered by the final couplet of the sonnet, in which Shakespeare says how rare his love for her is, and how he unfairly compared her, thus changing the entire tone of the sonnet within the last couplet. Shakespeare employs this same tactic in Sonnet 138. In this sonnet, Shakespeare details

The renaissance was an explosion of culture that forced Europe out of the dark ages. One of the popular new types of literature was the sonnet: a fouteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme written to earn a woman’s love. In sonnet 1 by Edmund Spenser, sonnet 31 by Philip Sidney, and sonnet 130 and 29 by William Shakespeare, the authors focus on romanticizing love in order to emphasize the importance of developing a relationship with a lady and earning her love. This is accomplished through the use of personification, similes, and allusions.

The title of the poem “My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun” suggests that the speaker is not in love with his ‘mistress’. However, this is not the case. Shakespeare uses figurative language by using criticizing hyperboles to mock the traditional love sonnet. Thus, showing not only that the ideal woman is not always a ‘goddess’, but mocking the way others write about love. Shakespeare proves that love can be written about and accomplished without the artificial and exuberant. The speaker’s tone is ironic, sarcastic, and comical turning the traditional conceit around using satire. The traditional iambic pentameter rhyming scheme of the sonnet makes the diction fall into place as relaxed, truthful, and with elegance in the easy flowing verse. In turn, making this sonnet one of parody and real love.

Shakespeare examines love in two different ways in Sonnets 116 and 130. In the first, love is treated in its most ideal form as an uncompromising force (indeed, as the greatest force in the universe); in the latter sonnet, Shakespeare treats love from a more practical aspect: it is viewed simply and realistically without ornament. Yet both sonnets are justifiable in and of themselves, for neither misrepresents love or speaks of it slightingly. Indeed, Shakespeare illustrates two qualities of love in the two sonnets: its potential and its objectivity. This paper will compare and contrast the two sonnets by Shakespeare and show how they represent two different attitudes to love.

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” (Line 1). “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” (Line 1). These are both two of the famous lines from William Shakespeare’s sonnet 18 and 130. William Shakespeare was an intelligent English playwright, poet, and dramatist during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He is known as one of the greatest playwrights of all time. Sonnet 18 and 130 are two of Shakespeare’s most famous poems. Sonnet 18 is a love poem about how he compares the woman’s love to a summer’s day. Sonnet 130 has a different approach. It is still a comparison, but it seems to be a more spiteful one. These sonnets are both share similar subjects, imagery, theme, and rhyme scheme; however they are more so different in forms and purpose.

Society’s standards and requirements in order for one to be considered beautiful, William Shakespeare's persona in sonnet 130 “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” states though his mistress (lover) is average compared to the society’s taste, she’s still consider special. Throughout the poem, Shakespeare utilizes conceit, imagery, and diction to describe his mistress’ beauty allowing one to visualize her. “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” is written in an iambic pentameter divided into three quatrains and a couplet. However, in lines 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 have slight variations depending on what parts of the mistress Shakespeare is comparing her to. On the surface, one may think the poem is about pointing the mistress’ flaws and beauty and accepting it. With further analyzation, one starts realizing that Shakespeare is mocking and making a parody of traditional love poems. Traditional love poems mainly exaggerate (ideal fantasy) how beautiful their partner (mainly a woman) by comparing them to goddess or nature. With the author use of alliteration, assonance, conceit, and diction, one can sense Shakespeare’s tone as well as opinion about traditional love.