Sonnet 130

Exercise 1 page 141

1. Eyes- sun (positive)
2. Lips- coral (positive)
3. Breasts- snow (positive)
4. Hair- black wires (negative)
5. Cheecks- roses (positive)
6. Breath- perfumes (positive)
7. Voice- music (positive)
8. Way of walking- a godess (positive)

Exercise 2 page 141

-          Purity

-          Harmony

-          Trustworthiness

 

Exercise 3 page 141

-          Her breasts are dun

-          In the breath that from my mistress reeks

-          I love to hear her speak

 

Exercise 4 page 141

B. the lady is a real woman, not an idealised one.

 

Exercise 5 page 141

In the rhyming couplet the poet says that he wants to describe how his beloved lady really is without any idealisation

 

Exercise 6 page 141

B. to mark his distane from traditional lovesonnets reversing their conventions

C. to show that love is what one feels for a woman who is beautiful in the eyes of the lover in spite of her difects

D. to oppose to the idealised woman, typical of traditional sonnets, to a real woman

 

 

Exercise 7 page 141

 

The form of Sonnet 130- three quatrains and a couplet,regular rhyme scheme, iambic pentameters- is a traditional one. Yet its content sets ita part from conventional love sonnets. In fact it can be definied as a parody of those poems. Shakespeare deliterally uses the comparisons typical of love poetry to reverse them so the beloved woman’s eyes are no longer bright like the sun, her hair is not soft and her cheecks are not ike angels. He shows that those comparison are ridiculous exaggerations since real women are not roses. Finally, he writes that love does not need false comparison and that to him his beloved is beautiful for what she is.

 

 

 

Textual analysis

The title sounds paradoxical because right from the start the word “nothing” is referring to the sun, but the poet his describing his beloved, so he would describe her like beautiful and so, referring with this opinion, it would be the opposite: so the sun would be described asl ess brighter then the lady’s eyes.

 

The function of the first stanza is an introductory on expresses a series of paradoxes. In the aptempt to describe his Mistress, he presents a woman who outdows all that that has been given and he says/tells the reader his “mistress” is beautiful than whatever element/ feature to courtal love code. Indeed, her eyes are brighter than the sun and he invites the reader to make an ipotesys according to it to her dark marks are better that the snow’s colour. He finishes saying her head is made up her wishes.

The strang of the message in the first quatrain result to frequent. In addiction the strong soundin “nothing” contributes the idea Speaking Voices the idea of a lady being loved using the even the use of a throcain line adds to the meaning he wants to give. If the reader considers part of the poem and complains the reader to using the key- words to generate meaning also, there is frequent use of annonance (I, my, Mystress) whire.

Right from the very first line addopts/uses/exploises how he compares his lady’s eyes to the sun: he uses it to the describe his lady’s eyes.

Lexical choices/ words choices is surely important expecially if you consider nothing why then all of these choices togheter, which are climatic oneaddictional is also the result of insistent repetition of the possessive pronoun “her”.

In the second quatrain the Speaking Voice continues to the describe his beloved comparing her characters, expecially the bad ones with natural elements, because he wants to describe her in all her shadows and shapes , parodying the courteen figure of the angel woman, glorifing natural elements .

In the second lie there is a repetition of the word “roses”; instead there is a climatic form of sounds like “s”(souch and some) and “r-s”(mistress and reeks).

There is also an enjambement between the last line of the second stanza and the last of the last stanza.

In the Iambic pentametre, differencing from the others quatrains he doesn’t compares the woman’s characters to the nature’s but he says that is would be describing his beloved how she is and not how he wants to immagine her.

The rhyme the poet uses are typical from the Shakesperian model so he uses the rhyming couplet and it is composed by three quatrains and a Iambic pentametre.

 

In this Sonnet the Speaking Voice wants to show that love is what one feels for a woman is beautiful in the eyes of the lover in despite of her defects and he also wants to oppose the idealise woman, typical of traditional sonnets, to a real woman.