Essays on Sonnet 130

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 by design mocks the traditional love poems of Shakespeare’s times. More traditional love poems were rife with exaggerated comparisons that extolled the beauty of the beloved. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 outright makes fun of such things in lines like the opening: “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;” (1). While much of his poem is spent describing her lover’s shortcomings, in the end he claims to love her. Shakespearean sonnets are fourteen lines long and consist of four parts (Kennedy n.p.; Owen 260). The first three parts known as quatrains each consist ...

THE INTERRELATION BETWEEN THE FORM OF POEM AND ITS MEANING

The world of poetry is proud of different outstanding names from the past, being constantly enriched with new masterminds. Nevertheless, there are such notables, whose light brightly shines all over the world, through centuries. In particular, such eternal fame is conquered by William Shakespeare, whose graceful style and deep understanding of the world made him a guiding star for all generations. In order to convince ourselves in Shakespeare’s great talent, let us dive into the beauty of his sonnet 130 from the world-known Sonnets. What makes Shakespeare’s penmanship exclusively inimitable is his great ability to preserve the ...

A Response to a Sonnet by Shakespeare

Abstract I am going to write about my response to ‘Sonnet 130’. I chose this sonnet because it made me laugh at Shakespeare’s stated attitude to his lover, because it is so unexpected when you first read the poem, but the the sonnet is read you come to understand that Shakespeare is also making a serious point baout love and the stereotypical images of feminine beauty that were dominant in his day. Those stereotypical images have their parallel in our society too, because through the media images of what women should look like ideally are carefully used to ...