An Explanation Of Sonnet Cxxx
Dawson College
Work presented to Mr. Roy Cartlidge English 101
10/18/06
An explanation of Sonnet CXXX
The poem I chose to analyze is Sonnet CXXX (130) by William Shakespeare. This poem can be seen as either a humorous tribute to his lover or a way to mock other poets of his time. I say humorous because there is no use of over the top metaphors or allusions as he does not compare his love to a goddess nor compare her beauty to rare and beautiful objects found in nature. References to such objects of perfection are indeed present, but they are there to illustrate that his lover is not as beautiful. This is evident in the first quartet as he describes his lover in a rather bizarre fashion for the time.
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
Coral is far more red than her lips' red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
These are her rather plain physical traits: her eyes are nothing like the......
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