Shakespeare Sonnet 130 Tone

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.

This quote uses metaphors, hyperboles, and alteration. The poet says when he saw the girl her face brightened with rouge he was comparing the girl's lit up face to one of something rouge. Another thing to use is alteration, the author uses these when talking about how he would visit the girl every day, day or night. This text supports my thesis by showing love can make you do things purely out of love, like going to a girl's house no matter what the weather or time of the day. The poetic evidence helps us get a picture of that night.

The author uses metaphors in the poem to uncover truth behind the work to describe the women, as well as himself that have broken his heart. The speaker uses the term “trustless

The song “Heartless” by Kanye West and Shakespeare’s poem “Sonnet 130” have a similar message about hatred to one’s lover and use rather similar figurative language techniques to convey this message. The two passages use forms of simile to express their feelings towards their lover. West’s “cold as the winter wind when it breeze, yo” (2) and Shakespeare’s “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun,” (1) show the hatred towards their lover. The words “nothing” and “cold” offer a negative connotation to their feelings for the other person they love. With Kanye West’s situation in the song, he is comparing his partner’s personality to the frosty, biting, cold winter winds when they are blowing.

“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;/Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;” (1-2) When one reads those lines in Shakespeare’s “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun”, to a normal eye it may seem as if Shakespeare is attacking his mistress with harmful words for no reason in disgust. But in contrast, if one looks closer throughout the poem, one begins to find abnormalities in its text, to some individuals it would simply state it as just gibberish. As it turns out, Shakespeare was only poking fun at how others would never would have a relationship as pure as his; any other individual would paint their mistress out to be a beyond what she actually is. That gibberish is just one of the literary techniques that authors put in place

The poetic voice's mistress is of nature; no supernal gifts are hers. It is even strongly indicated that she is beneath the highest forms of beauty nature has to offer (her eyes are "nothing like the sun", "coral is far more red" than her lips, no "roses see I in her cheeks".) But this is to stray beyond the confines of the original subject, the rest of the verse argues, because the love the voice has for its lover is "as rare" as any other; beauty does not have to draw such clichéd parallels with nature to be thought of in the mind of a lover as surpassing everything around it. In reference to this repeated theme, in the introduction to the Penguin Classics printing of the Sonnets (though in reference specifically to sonnet 84), editor John Kerrigan concludes:

The world has many if not endless methods and techniques for demonstrating those specially dear a form of affection. However, the display of the complex understanding of Shakespeare, which to the opinion I lack to the fullest, in the 130th Sonnet, Sonnet 130, demonstrates the speaker’s affection through the development of a complicated attitude through his use of certain writing attributes. Anyhow, sonnet 130 expresses the speakers affection by portraying the real person that he loves and stating that he does not need no fancy gibberish to express his love. This sonnet begins with a generalization of an ugly women or so it seems to divert from the ordinary or tradition vision of beauty creating a direct tone in the speaker.

The speaker presents the woman in the first stanza of the poem in a sensual and loving (captivating) manner. While the poem deals with the speaker’s “love” for the lady, his first descriptions are of her physicality rather than her intellect and companionship, which implies that his supposed “love” may actually be infatuation. In the first line, the speaker reveals his attraction to the woman’s physicality and desirability; “beautiful and faded” conveys that the woman’s appearance as well as her reputation of being “used” fosters his interest in her. He proceeds to use a simile to describe the

In the first section, the speaker laments that there is not enough time for his mistress’ attempts at shyness and virtue, and that such pretenses should be abandoned. However, the speaker continues, that if there were enough time, his love would transcend time and grow “vaster than empires” (599). He concludes this section by saying “For, lady, you deserve this state, / Nor would I love at lower rate” (600). This couplet reiterates his passion for the lady, and in essence, sums up everything he said in the section.

(Shakespeare 828). This final comparison implies that the speaker is still in love with his despite her shortcomings. His love is only as rare, as something that occurs far too often. Thus, despite claiming that there are many of things better than his lover, the speaker still sticks to the undying devotion two in love

By doing so, Shakespeare further implies that it is not the physical perfections, or having a voice as lovely as music that make up love, but rather personality and more skin-deep qualities that make up true love. The utilization of excellent diction, and the use of paradox and allegory techniques throughout conveys to the reader the admirable tone the speaker seems to have for his love, and the realistic point Shakespeare tries to prove in that love is not just simply looks, but character and quality of a person that form a truer and deeper bond.

The speaker starts the first quatrain criticizing his ‘mistress’. He spends each line comparing her to something else. The first line is a simile “My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun”, her eyes are most likely brown or dull, ordinary. The first line also follows the basic iambic pentameter form, in the masculine sense ending with a stressed syllable, “my MIStress EYES are NOthing LIKE the SUN”. In the second line there is a break from the norm, where instead of the usual iambic pentameter, the stress falls on the first syllable “COral”. The second line “Coral is far more red than her lips red” is suggesting that her lips are not red and that women’s lips who are bright

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.

In his poem, “But love whilst that thou mayst be loved again”, he focuses on warning women to find love soon because beauty will not last with age. He compares a woman’s beauty to a flower: “the fairest flower that ever saw the light / men do not weigh the stalk for what it was / when they find her flower, her glory, pass” (Daniel 6, 13-14). Through this metaphor, he shows how men view beauty in love. No one looks at a dead flower and thinks about what it used to be, rather, he or she looks towards other flowers that bloom with life and colour. This sonnet begins as an admiration for his subject’s beauty, but it ends by telling the subject that when her physical beauty deteriorates, no one will love her. This poem reflects society’s fixation on superficial beauty because it reminds women that they will never find love without external beauty, as a result of the superficiality of men in society. Both poems of the Renaissance Period assert the idea of perfection and the importance of physical beauty in love and relationships.

The first quatrain in the poem, Shakespeare compares the sexually parts of the a woman that usually attract people to nature. People’s first impression about another person is usually by looking at their appearance though we shouldn’t judge a person by their appearance. He compares the parts in a reverse order