Re: Sonnet 130 (READ THIS FIRST!) -- Shakespeare's Sonnets

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Date Posted: 16:20:23 03/20/03 Thu
Author: Elizabeth peptenar
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?
>the couplet at the end shows that the poem means that he loves this mistress even though she isn't pretty and true love has nothing to do with the outer appearence.
>2. How does Shakespeare mock aspects of the
>traditional sonnet in Sonnet 130?
Most poets in the Elizabethan era wrote poems about the the people they love being beautiful and shakespeare writes a sonnet on the lady he loves as being ugly and that was a big difference.

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Re: Sonnet 130 (READ THIS FIRST!) -- Rebecca Maaske, 16:22:51 03/20/03 Thu