Analysis Of The Poem ' My Mistress Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun '

A key part in everyone’s life eventually, beauty standards and their impact might appear in a person’s youth or later down the line in his or her life. If a gorgeous girl is not extremely quick-witted, people will say that she is in a favorable situation thanks to her looks due to the fact that they will get her ahead in her life. Pleasurable features could also play a valuable part in your career choices or options. These over the top beauty standards can cause a false hope in relationships and life. According to Amanda Mabillard in her analysis of Shakespeare’s “My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun,” “The ordinary beauty and humanity of his lover are important to Shakespeare in this sonnet.” This tells of how the simplicity of his

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.

Is true love an unattainable ideal? Do we all have a soul mate? Is love just an exchange of lies for the purpose of flattery? These questions, and countless others, regarding love have been pondered by philosophers and pop music stars alike for hundreds of years. William Shakespeare examines these questions from two vantage points in “Sonnet 116” and “Sonnet 138.” Firstly, in “Sonnet 116”, Shakespeare analyzes love in a rhetorical manner, meaning that he is not discussing a specific relationship of his, but theorizing on the concept of love as a whole, in abstract terms. Conversely, in “Sonnet 138”, Shakespeare analyzes love in a specific manner. He looks inward to inspect a relationship between him and a woman, also known as The Dark Lady, and paints a much different picture of love than in “Sonnet 116”, in specific terms. In William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116” and “Sonnet 138”, Shakespeare analyzes love in abstract and specific terms; concluding that abstract love relies on affection, does not change or age, and is built upon a solid foundation of truth, while specific love, on the other hand, relies on lust, actively ignores change and aging, and revolves around deception. These two sonnets paint entirely adverse portraits of love in order to emphasize the dichotomy between the poet’s expectations of love, and the reality which does not live up to the poet’s expectations.

Dating back to 1609, William Shakespeare artfully crafts a poem, in which illuminates a man’s struggle through self-reflection and faith. With fourteen lines in iambic pentameter, the poem embodies the characteristics of an English sonnet. Allowing the character to “look upon myself,” Shakespeare writes about the feelings of a singular person; thus, creating a lyric poem. Masterfully working within the tough parameters of closed form, Shakespeare strays away from typical meter and rhyme scheme only when emphasizing the true nature of the persona’s spirit. In Shakespeare’s sonnet “When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes,” the poet employs numerous poetic devices to exemplify the persona’s struggle with loneliness and self-worth,

Love comes in many colors. The blood-crimson of lust and the jade-green of jealously are but two of the vast palate required to paint this inescapable human passion. William Shakespeare’s store of colors is unrivaled. No human failing, foible or foolishness escapes his gentle, comedic reproof. He equally enjoins his audience to venture as bravely as he does into the palpable horror of love gone amiss. In “OTHELLO,”“MACBETH,” and many more dramas, love’s fatal potential to provoke vengeance or the quest for earthly power is powerfully felt. These are epic investigations of love’s progression. A sonnet, however, is the equivalent of the modern short story. It is a snapshot of a single, significant experience. In two of Shakespeare’s sonnets – diverse in time and temperament, but complimentary in their conclusions – Shakespeare states his deepest feelings about the potential for a human love that is an un-judgmental commitment to the selfless nourishment of a partner. Sonnet 116, with a certainty and wisdom obtained from experience and suffering, marches out a rigorous and profound definition of true love. Sonnet 29 finds a soul in turmoil salvaged by an epiphany of understanding the power of true love to heal. By examining the perspective of the respective speakers, their individual progresses, the themes evoked and the poetic devices employed to compliment content this essay argues that for Shakespeare, true and enduring

Emily Dickinson once said, “Forever is composed of nows.” Love in the renaissance era was passionate but fleeting- always had an obstacle, because marriage was commonly not for love. Love Flings and the modern “crush” happened more often rather than not. As a result, love sonnets were prevalent due to infatuations or heartaches. One of the most routine thematic ideas used in these sonnets was the theme of carpe diem, to seize the day. William Shakespeares, “Carpe Diem,” as well as Andrew Marvells, “To His Coy Mistress,” convey the fleeting romance in the renaissance era using traditional dramatic monologues in order to portray the purpose of carpe diem as a resolution in such dilemmas as well as motto towards life itself.

Beauty standards are a key part of everyone’s life eventually, whether it be in the person’s youth or down the line in life. If a gorgeous girl is not extremely quick-witted, people will say that she is in a favorable situation thanks to her looks due to the fact that they will get her ahead in her life. Pleasurable features could also play a valuable part in your career choices or options. These over the top beauty standards can cause a false hope in relationships and life. According to Amanda Mabillard in her analysis of Shakespeare’s “My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun,” “The ordinary beauty and humanity of his lover are important to Shakespeare in this sonnet.” This tells of how the simplicity of his lover creates a new sense

English poet William Shakespeare is known for his astounding works around the world. Sonnets are beautifully constructed and rear lasting truths about the world we live in. All of Shakespeare’s sonnets are in the form of an English sonnet. He used this method so frequently that it has coined the term the Shakspearian sonnet. Shakespeare has written a collection of 154 sonnets’, the first 126 sonnets address a young man and the last, about a woman (About…). It is believed that Shakespeare was a bisexual; a lifestyle not accepted in that period. Three of his most popular works were chosen to exemplify the overall theme. Sonnets 18, 29 and 116 were chosen from the 154 others because they are a few of the most popular of his works in this form. The individual theme, tone through diction, and meaning of the poems will be analysed to prove Shakespeare’s works are about the idealized power of love and immortalizing the subject.

First, Shakespeare employs simile to describe his speaker’s love interest. A simile is a figure of speech comparing two unlike things to make the description seem more vivid. Shakespeare uses simile to negate the likeness of the woman’s beauty to inanimate objects. He states, in the very first line, that her eyes are not like the sun, which is in direct opposition to other sonnets of that time. Shakespeare implies “that this woman is not an epitome of beauty and that more beautiful things exist” (Woolway). By reversing the language, he conveys that describing a woman as a beautiful object seems almost ridiculous. He continues the negative comparison throughout the poem proving “he does not praise her for some exalted, unrealistic standard of beauty” (Kramer). The speaker loves his mistress for her imperfections which Shakespeare exaggerates to make a point.

This sonnet dramatizes the conflict between appearance and reality, specifically drawing attention to the excessive use of romantic cliches in literature during the elizabethan era. William Shakespeare uses similes and metaphor to compare the speaker’s mistress to that of unpleasant and insulting attributes. In doing this, Shakespeare makes a joke out of the traditional conventions of love poetry at the time and their unrealistic nature when describing women. The nature of these comparisons give the reader a sense of discomfort and the volta within the concluding couplet cause the reader to reevaluate the sincerity of the falsehoods riddled in typical poetry regarding love.

Once upon a time there was an English writer from the 1600s who wrote a collection of 154 poems called Shakespeare’s Sonnets. The poems reflect on love, time, beauty, and death. Throughout the sonnets, many different types of love can be deciphered. The Various ways to love can be seen in William Shakespeare’s poems, as proven by lust in “Sonnet 129,” the love of appearances in “Sonnet 130,” true love in “Sonnet 116,” and the elements of nature in contrast to love in “Sonnet 18,” proving that there can be many different aspects of love and how it is perceived.

The theme of homoeroticism is prominent in Shakespeare’s sonnet as the narrative voice affectionately describes the subject of his passion, ‘a woman’s face, with Nature’s own hand painted.’ It demonstrates the effeminate essence of his lover yet maintains a certain ambiguity as to their gender which is suggested in the second line, ‘master-mistress.’ This can be interpreted both in a literal sense or a figurative sense. The narrative voice could be alluding to the idea that the subject of his love has complete control over him in the same way that a master has over his mistress, or perhaps that it is both a male and a female. The deceptive use of gender obscurity and word play within the first few lines highlights the problem of assumption, indicative of societal and religious influence of 16th century England. Although George Stevens maintains that Shakespeare’s homoerotic sonnets provoked, ‘an equal mixture of disgust and indignation’, Robert Martz asserts, ‘the bonds between men that helped to shape the courtly love tradition remained compelling in Shakespeare’s time.’ Thus, Shakespeare arguably satirises the

Some of the most renowned sonneteers express their love for another person in terms of the magnitude of that person’s beauty, especially during the Elizabethan era. But, the most powerful form of love is loving someone for who they are instead of what they look like. Loving someone for love’s sake allows love to last a lifetime because love is true and the truth does not change. This differs from loving someone for physical features in which both the love of looks and the beauty fade with time. While in the moment it may be charming to be characterized by eternal beauty, as William Shakespeare does in Sonnet 18, being loved for the real feeling of being loved is more lovely where true love does not fade like the love for physical features. The truth of true love is evident in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 14 where she insinuates that the failure to love someone for only love’s sake reveals the love as being superficial. True love should be something that is not only contained in human nature or characteristics but should be something beyond humanity that is eternal. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 14 dismisses the love of physical features that William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 prides on in order to illustrate that true love is unearthly, unchanging, and eternal.

For purposes that exist outside of the narratives, both Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the first eighteen sonnets of his published sequence are self-referential. This is evident as his sonnets explore the notion of preserving the subject’s beauty by establishing themselves as the primary method in which this may occur in order to win favour with a potential patron. On the other hand, A Midsummer Night’s Dream employs this technique in order to comment on the notion of classical love, achieved through allegory, meta-theatricality and the representation of love demonstrated by character relationships. With the intentions of currying a patron’s favour and making comment on the supposed fable of classical love, these works by Shakespeare are both self-referential and allegorical.

Shakespeare has stated explicitly that the essence of the love he was celebrating in his sonnets was independent of reality and therefore was independent of change. Like in sonnet 124, when he says, “That it grows with heat, nor drowns with showers.” But the Romantics believed that the sonnets were autobiographical, and also the even now the critics feel the same way. But some of the critics view the sonnets as ‘purely literary exercises.’