Date Posted:16:30:09 03/11/03 Tue Author:Aimee Subject: Re: Sonnet 130 (READ THIS FIRST!) In reply to:
Mrs. G.
's message, "Sonnet 130 (READ THIS FIRST!)" on 14:57:27 01/02/03 Thu
>After reading & paraphrasing Sonnet 130 on your own,
>explain the following:
>
>1. Explain the couplet at the end of this sonnet. How
>does it alter the meaning of the sonnet?
>
>2. How does Shakespeare mock aspects of the
>traditional sonnet in Sonnet 130?
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It was the least of my intentions to post a reply first, but Im bored and figured I might as well do it before I forget(and I wanted to make sure I'll still have a chance to laugh at everybody else after everybody laughs at me! ;^)
HERE WE GO......
1.The sonnet is saying that his mistress is.....well..... ugly to say the least (I know I wouldn't like it very much if someone said that my hair is like wires, roses are more red than my cheeks and that my breath stinks)! But, in the last two lines (the couplet) he contradicts everything he said before by saying that his love for her is all he needs and that makes her beautiful which in a way makes everything he said before almost a comlpiment.
2.Sonnets in the Elizabethan era seem to, as a rule, describe the love somebody has for someone beautiful, elegant and wondeful. The love in this sonnet may be just as wonderful, but the woman isn't at all elegant or beautiful. I think Shakespear is saying that other people are making things too perfect and love isn't alway accompanied by beauty.
