Analysis Of Sonnet 130

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Cam Chioffi

9-9-14

Minigan

Exploring sonnet 130

In my eyes the whole idea Shakespeare had behind writing this sonnet was to portray an image of the dark lady that showed her in a negative light for pretty much all of the sonnet. The funny thing is that although he spends 12 of the 14 lines pretty much destroying her, he takes the last two lines to throw some positivity in there, which I guess is supposed to keep the audience guessing about how he truly feels about her. I see a common theme emerging, regarding his confused sexuality. He does this by giving the audience multiple examples of his mixed feelings towards both the fair boy, and the dark lady. This piece is very contradictory to the romantic style in which people are used to Shakespeare writing in, at least that’s how it looks at first. He begins by comparing his mistresses eyes to the sun, saying they are nothing alike. Next he moves to coral and describes it as being far more red than her lips. He moves on to give a description of a pale, black haired woman, who’s breath smells bad, and who’s voice is not as pleasing as the music he listens to. Finally he says that instead of walking gracefully, she simply treads on the ground. I guess that Shakespeare probably used this style of visual writing to get his point across because when people think about appearance, visual reasoning is the first thing that is used to understand what the appearance means. Kind of a strange way to think about it but I think you get what I mean. The last two lines of this sonnet are interesting in the fact that he switches up everything that was written in the past twelve lines and essentially says that his love for the dark lady is more rare than anyone who compared her to the most beautiful things under the sun. The sonnet has a satirical tone to it, mainly because Shakespeare saw that every poet
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