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    2015 Sonnet 130 Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130” uses imagery to compare his lover to other objects in order to convey his true feelings towards his mistress. With this idea, one can make the assumption that Shakespeare’s argument is accepting the normality of women by understanding that they don’t all look like supermodels or goddesses. His views about his mistress can relate to how present day men look at their significant other. Shakespeare’s view towards women shifts between his sonnets. Comparing

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    Shakespeare’s Lovely Sonnets William Shakespeare is a famous playwright and poet whose pieces are still well known in the modern world. Some of these well known pieces are his sonnets written about love. “Sonnet 18” and “Sonnet 130” are examples of these love poems. These sonnets convey Shakespeare’s love in different ways. “Sonnet 18” expresses superiority over another subject, and “Sonnet 130” expresses uniqueness. Although the attitudes of “Sonnet 18” and “Sonnet 130” are different, Shakespeare uses comparisons

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    artists still employ such methods. William Shakespeare, for instance, expertly composed a collection of 154 sonnets; their construction, themes and emotions still effectively pave direction for future literature. Constructed to communicate contrasting ideals of love, the first 126 texts are based upon stereotypical romantic embellishment, while the remaining 28 focus solely on the feeling of an emotional connection, rather than that of the physical. Sonnet 130, in particular, is clearly a parody of the

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    sometimes used to profess admiration to a lover. In Sonnet 130, Shakespeare redefined what love poems were, by making his poem a parody of the conventional love poems that were written by poets in the sixteenth to seventeenth century. Prior to this poem, love poems were praised for their romantic appeals where more often than not they praised women for their beauty and god like appearance. This poem was known to be one of Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets because of its central idea that love is not only

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    Sonnets written in Elizabethan England were usually after Petrarch’s works. Petrarch was a man who was in love with a girl name Laura de Noves. He wrote 366 poems about his love for this woman from the year 1327 all the way until 1368. His works were very stereotypical love poems that included lines like, “She ruled in beauty o'er this heart of mine, / A noble lady in a humble home, / And now her time for heavenly bliss has come, / Tis I am mortal proved, and she divine.” Petrarch wrote in such

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    Compare Sonnet 130 by Shakespeare and the Glasgow Sonnet by Edwin Morgan. Poetry has many forms and styles of which it can be written and emphasised in. A sonnet is one of these forms. They mainly consist of fourteen lines, but can be set out in two different ways. One of two styles of sonnet is Elizabethan. William Shakespeare is an example of a poet and writer of this time period, and possible one of the most recognised for his work. William Shakespeare wrote an astounding 144 sonnets

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    “Sonnet 18” and Sonnet “130,” were some of William Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets that he ever wrote. Both sonnets are very similar with the theme of love and beauty; however they contrast each other in their purpose, style, and whom William Shakespeare is writing the sonnet to. The sonnets are both written in two different styles of writing. “Sonnet 18” was written in a more traditional format, which paints the woman in a divine spotlight. “Sonnet 130” however contrasts “Sonnet 18” by instead

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    Shakespearean Sonnets consist of 154 Sonnets that are well know for their themes such as passage of time, love, beauty, and mortality. Out of all the Sonnets, Sonnet 130 is the most significant because Shakespeare mocks the concept of traditional Sonnets. The traditional sonnet were usually love poems or Sonnets that person would show how much they praise someone or thing by exaggerating their beauty through imagery and comparisons. In Sonnet 130, Shakespeare does the complete opposite compared

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    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

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    The English, or Shakespearian, sonnet has the simplest and most flexible patterns of all sonnets. It consists of three quatrains of alternation rhyme and an ending couplet which concludes the sonnet. William Shakespeare is known for his works such as Romeo and Juliet, but he is well known for his sonnets. William Shakespeare’s sonnet 116 and sonnet 130 describe love in a different way; however, the sonnets center around the same idea. Sonnet 116 is about love in its most ideal form. The first

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