Sonnet 130 Figurative Language

Current stereotypes and of Shakespeare’s time are similar in manifold ways. These stereotypes thrust upon girls at such a young age can cause them to compare themselves to one another. One might want the other’s nose, while one might want to be shorter like the other. When I was younger, I just wanted to be thinner. To look like those girls on the magazine covers I what I desired, which is an unattainable goal in my everyday life. Just like how these girls, and even myself, compare themselves to each other, Shakespeare compares his lover to the ideal woman of his own time. Stating another way that his lover varies from the ideals of the time, Shakespeare compares her hair to those of others lovers when he states the following: “If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.” In the public today, women want long, silky hair. Over the years, it seems that society believes that blonde hair is more attractive, and women with blonde hair have bounteous amounts of fun and act more impromptu. I, on the other hand, have shorter, dark brunette hair, but this does not mean I cannot have fun or be just as attractive as a “bombshell blonde.”

In Shakespeare's poem “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” published in 1609, he successfully expresses a few more difficulties of love through a humorous tone. Women are too often held to high beauty standards which Shakespeare strikes down by helping the readers realize that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and that nature should not be compared to women in the first place. By making multiple comparisons between his lover and nature Shakespeare focuses on being honest and having realistic standards for 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.

Everyone's perception of beauty differs, but all women are beautiful in their own way. We as a society have set a standard for women that is not only unattainable but also leaves women who take these standards seriously, feeling inadequate or invalid. This has been an issue in society for many centuries and even a topic famous writers like William Shakespeare have acknowledged. In his Sonnet 130, Shakespeare gives examples of the preposterous comparisons women have been subjected to and how the love he has for his mistress can overshadow these imperfections. Shakespeare uses a judgemental tone and contrasting word choice to suggest that even though this woman is by all means flawed, he still has feelings for her.

Moreover, Shakespeare utilizes visual imagery in the first quatrain when he discusses the “glorious morning” as he saw “mountain-tops with [a] sovereign eye, kissing the golden face meadows green,” thus depicting how beautiful his beloved appears to him. However, the descriptions drastically change around the second quatrain when he starts discussing the “ugly rack on his celestial face,” thus depicting the extraneous guilt and betrayal he feels after his lover betrayed him. Likewise, Shakespeare illustrates kinesthetic imagery by describing how the “sun one early morn did shine with all triumphant splendor on my brow,” which emphasizes how his beloved, the sun, once warmed his brow and created fond memories with

Sonnet 129 is an abnormal poem amongst Shakespeare’s collection; it deals with the complex emotion that is referred to as lust. At first glimpse, this sonnet appears traditional like the others, but an in-depth reading shows tha Unlike the other 153 romanticized sonnets that Shakespeare wrote, sonnet 129 is full of frustration, exasperation, and contrition over the effect of a woman on his character. Lust can cause one misery, and Shakespeare illustrates this fact in his sonnet through the use of tone, language, and metaphor. Sonnet 129 appears to be like many of Shakespeare’s other Sonnets, it follows the traditional rhyme scheme (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG), and its use of alliteration and syntax make for a melodic and mellow tone. However, this sonnet is unlike Shakespeare’s other for many reasons.

For this final essay we are going to be writing about two of the six poems that we studied. One of the poems that we are studying is called sonnet 18 by Shakespear,Sonnet 18 is a love poem. The other poem that were studying is called Sonnet 30,Sonnet 30 is a poem about someone who is lacking love. In Sonnet 18 the author is comparing the setting sun to his lover,While in Sonnet 30 the author is explaining that you dont need love to live your life. The point im trying to prove is that both of these poem have good imagery examples, but the poems dont relate that much because there basiclly the complete opposite.

In Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 46” the speaker reveals his view between physical love and emotional love. The poem dramatizes the conflict between the love of appearance versus the love of the inward of a person. The struggle becomes evident in the first line, “mine eye and heart are at mental war” the eye representing lust and infatuation while the heart is without physical lust and is true love. The personification helps illustrate Shakespeare’s offbeat view between the eye and heart, and how to perceive the person whom he loves. Shakespeare further uses the eye calling it “the defendant” pushing the poem to illustrate a traditional courtroom showcasing fully the opposing forces.

William Shakespeare conveys the speaker's negative feelings toward his mistress through this anti-love poem by using comparisons. The first example of these comparisons is seen in the opening sentence of the poem through the simile within “My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.” This simile sets the tone of mockery seen throughout the passage. Shakespeare also uses sensual descriptions to describe the unsightly way the speaker views his mistress. This can be seen as the speaker describes his mistress as having pale lips, dingy colored flesh, wiry hair, pale cheeks, rotten breath, and an off-putting voice.

True love is a tricky concept positively understood by no being despite the dramatic descriptions created all around the world by millions of explorers. In his work “Sonnet 130,” William Shakespeare dives into the exaggerations of the realities of love in use of negatively placed similes, while Robert Burns in his work “A Red, Red Rose” shares a supposed story with uses of similar figurative language, which allows a greater look into the simplicities of true love. These authors’ reasonings behind their works have been widely researched for centuries. As told by the figurative language Shakespeare uses in his work “Sonnet 130” it can be inferred that he is simply making fun of the usual writings on the feelings of love, despite some of his other works that succumb to these

As active readers, we often associate love with the benevolent attributes of nature. In accordance, many authors, including William Shakespeare, base a majority of their pieces around this theme due to its credited notoriety amongst their audiences; however, critics argue that the comparisons employed by said authors are often over exaggerated. Shakespeare uses various literary devices such as imagery and similes to both exemplify the concept of love in nature as well as negate it in his poems “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day…” and “My mistress’ eyes.”

In his poem Shakespeare mocks cliches and writes the complete opposite of a stereotypical love poem. He describes the worst features she has but at the end he says how all other love is fake and his love is real because it's real love. This poem shows that people will still love you even if you don't fit into the category of having a perfect face and perfect body. Like Bruno Mars, Shakespeare exaggerates his comparisons to criticise the typical cliches. He uses "coral is far more red than the sun." Shakespeare does this to compare all the things that his mistress, that use is not. Typical love poetry does the opposite and compares her to all the things that make her beautiful, like Bruno Mar's song "Just The Way You Are." But in the rhyming couplets he says he loves her despite the thing is she is not. In the end of Bruno Mars's song he says he loves her because of all the things she is. Realistically after a while there would be something about her physical appearance that he dislike. Shakespeare's poem is

Another Demonstration of tone, taking an addition to author's purpose, is portrayed in “My mistress’ eyes” by William Shakespeare in which he was mocking the point of view of other poets that over exaggerated the beauty of a woman. This poem reflects the essence of being ironically loving through tone, where Shakespeare decides to correctly compare his mistress. “And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare, As any she belied with false compare.” Taking into account the way he decides to use his tone of indifference, as if he were really talking truths about his lover, that the harsh things he says about her don’t matter. He relies on the reality of his Mistress’ misfortune and unappealing characteristics to define his affection accurately.

What is beauty? In Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” a shepherd calls to his love so that she may spend her life with him in “buckles of the purest gold;” and “Belts of straw and Ivy buds, / With Coral clasp and Amber studs” (15-18). The beauty of artifice is clear in the stanzas of this sonnet, however, should one compare it with that of William Shakespeare’s sonnets featuring the “Dark Lady,” one can see the change in perspective of love. Shakespeare expresses his “love” through the words, “In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes, / For they in thee a thousand errors note, / But ‘tis my heart that loves what they despise” (1869). Through his verses, Shakespeare articulates his disdain for vanity and artifice by declaring that no one can legitimately be beautiful and that no single form of beauty is better than the other, physically, or otherwise. Shakespeare denotes the change in standards of beauty through writing about the Dark Lady, expressing his clear disinterest in her lack of beauty and loving her anyway. Through his Dark Lady sonnets, Shakespeare challenges the ideas of what beauty is by suggesting that the idea of “fair” beauty through the use of artifice is not beautiful. This, however, contradicts his argument about the artifice and beauty of the “Fair Youth” being able to preserve one’s legacy in the first 127 sonnets. Yet, while Shakespeare is biased towards the Fair Youth because of his relationship with said youth, be it

Shakespeare starts the sonnet with comparing the physical traits of his mistress to the beauties of the world. The comparison, as it was said above, is not usual for the poetry of the time. Precisely, the comparison does not relate to the features of the described woman: