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LVirardi-4A- My mistress's eyes-Exercises.
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Comprehension:
- Dun-->Greyish-brown Wires-->Long thin pieces of metal Grant-->To accept that something is true Belied-->To give a false idea of-to describe by lies
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FEATURES
SHAKESPEAREAN LADY
Eyes
Dark
Lips
Coral is more red than her lips
Breasts
Brownish grey
Hair
Black pieces of metal
Cheeks
No red and white
Breath
Smell unpleasantly
Voice
Music has more pleasing sound
Way of walking
Walks heavily
- No, he does not describe the woman he loves in the conventional way because he uses words and adjectives completely different than those used by the other poets. The Shakespeare’s objective is to ridicule the woman described in all the other sonnets that underlines only the characteristics of angelic woman, it cannot exist such a perfect woman.
- In the three quatrain the rhyme scheme is ABAB-CDCD-EFEF and finally in the rhyming couplet it is GG, it is different from the Petrarchan sonnet’s rhyme scheme that is ABBA ACCA DEE EFF.
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SONNET’S FEATURES
SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET
STRUCTURE
Three quatrain and final rhyming couplet.
RHYME SCHEME
ABAB-CDCD-EFEF-GG
THEMES
The woman; this sonnet can be consider the parody of the typical convention of courtly love according to poets.
Interpretation:
- In this sonnet Shakespeare uses the language of sense impression, he appeals to sight, hearing and smell and this choice makes the woman more realistic and more closer to the reader, she is a woman that you could meet in everyday life.
- With the final words “false compare” the poets refers to the comparison with the Renaissance’s idea of perfect woman. So he thinks that his love is rare because she is very different, she is the opposite.
- In the final couplets Shakespeare wants to underline that he really love his mistress even if she is not so beautiful and angelic.