Sonnet 130 -- Shakespeare's Sonnets

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Date Posted: 11:27:31 03/22/03 Sat
Author: Cynthia Luois
Subject: Sonnet 130

1.) At the beginning of this sonnet I thought that the poet was being quite insulting and I had to read it over to make sure. I mean he said that her breath reeked! That is horrible. The poet finds everything in nature to compare her to. Yet when she is compared, nature is far more better. Then out of no where he turns the whole sonnet around and he seems to say that looks don't matter. The poet even seems to apologize in the last line, saying that he lied to even compare her with what he did. This is very touching!! I loved it!

2.) Shakespeare definitly mocks the traditional aspects of sonnet writing because it is about love!!!!!!!!! But I like it. When the poet writes the sonnet it comes from the heart and it touches the reader because it's so deep. In a way the reader can relate(in a twisted way) Yet some times the reader wonders, "why did he insult his love in the beginning only to say he loves her in the end?" But that is what makes a traditional sonnet. Hey...maybe I can make the next traditional sonnet!!!!!

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