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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
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Gl i occhi del la mia donna non sono come i l sole;Coral is far more red than her lips' red;I l coral lo è as sai più ros so del ros so del le sue labbra;If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;Se la neve è bianca, perché al lora i suoi seni sono bigi ;If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.Se i capel l i sono setole, nere setole crescono sul la sua testa.I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,Ho vi s to rose damascate, ros se e bianche,But no such roses see I in her cheeks;Ma tal i rose non vedo sul le sue guance;And in some per fumes is there more delightE in alcuni profumi c’è più del i ziaThan in the breath that from my mistress reeks.Che nel f iato che dal la mia donna esala.I love to hear her speak, yet well I knowAmo sent i r la par lare, eppure ben soThat music hath a far more pleasing sound.Che la mus ica ha un mol to più gradevole suono.I grant I never saw a goddess go,Ammet to ( ch e ) mai vidi una dea camminare,My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.Ma la mia donna, quando cammina, calca la ter ra.And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rareEppure, in n ome d e l c i e l o , penso (ch e ) i l mio amore ( s ia ) tanto raroAs any she belied with false compareQuanto qual s ias i donna t ravi sata da fal s i paragoni . This sonnet is arranged into three quatrains and a final rhymingcouplet, for this reason it follows the elizabethan model. The rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG .In this sonnet Shakespeare attacks all the qualities of angelic women as described by Petrarch's Canzoniere. As a matter of fact the poet said that woman's eyes are not as bright as the light of the sun. Her lips are not as red as coral, nor is her complexion as white as snow. Surely her breath is not so sweet as tha of some perfume, and thogh her words are pleasing they are nothing compared to the sound of music. The poet's woman, when she walks, walks on the ground and not above it like a goddes. and yet the poet thinks his love as rare as those described by other poets.
It is an attack against falsity in general: against beauty but insincere declarations of love as well as against highly conventional images in poetry. For this reason he use contrasting images and negative comparissons. All these things give as result a more real desription of the woman, infact a man could met the woman described in this sonnet long a street.Further to have a more realistic effect shakespeare refers to three senses : Smell SightHearing
It is an attack against falsity in general: against beauty but insincere declarations of love as well as against highly conventional images in poetry. For this reason he use contrasting images and negative comparissons. All these things give as result a more real desription of the woman, infact a man could met the woman described in this sonnet long a street.Further to have a more realistic effect shakespeare refers to three senses : Smell SightHearing