Shakespeare
William Shakespeare's sonnet, 130, is a fourteen line poem in which Shakespeare compares nature to his mistress. Throughout the poem the speaker compares his lover to a number of other beauties and never in the lovers favor. Negative comparisons, positively complicated comparisons and the speaker's definition of his love all play a part of the pros and cons in this poem. Sonnet 130 explains about how the speaker's mistress can have many negative qualities but at the same time have outstanding qualities which leads to the speaker truly loving his mistress. The complex definition of the speaker's love leads to think that the mistress is unlovable. This description of his love explains why the pros weigh out the
Wire was seen as a sign of beauty because it was used to make jewellery and fancy fabric. It shows the speaker's full intent of insiting that love does not need these conceits in order to be real, and women do not need to look like flowers or the sun in order to be beautiful. So the negative comparison plays its role by describing the wires as black and not just the wires themselves. "If hairs be wires, black wires grow upon her head" is saying that if the mistress had hair it would be black. Therefore, their breasts tended to be as 'white as snow' just like the rest of their skin. He says that perfumes smell delightful but his mistress's breath reeks. The first part of the couplet defines the speaker's love as rare and valuable. Lady's love to smell good because of the invention of perfume and for a man to say that her breath reeks is a insult. This couplet makes no comparisons between the poets lover and other beauties. He continues with "As any she belied with false compare" meaning that any love in which false comparisons appeal to describes the loved one's beauty. When the speaker talks about his mistress breasts being dun or grey-ish brown, another negative comparison is given. The first eight lines of this sonnet are examples of making negative comparisons between the speaker's lover and nature. The women during this period of time were usually a lot paler than the women nowadays. At first this does not sound negative but during the Renaissance time, hair was compared to golden wires or threads.
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