What does If snow be white why then her breasts are dun?
Another question is: What is Sonnet 130's purpose?
Sonnet 130, an unusual poem, turns the idea about female beauty on its heads. It offers the reader an alternative perspective of what it's like for a woman to love her, warts and all.
Another question that might be asked is, "What tone does Sonnet 130 have?" Tone conveys the mood of a poem. The tone in sonnet 130 seems mocking to me. This sonnet is interesting in that, even though it describes his lady love, the speaker seems more interested in slamming the clichéd descriptions often used to describe a relationship in poetry.
What does Sonnet 130's last two lines mean in this context?
These are two simple lines: The speaker believes that his lover is just as amazing ("rare") than any woman ("any she"), who has ever been misrepresented ("belied") through exaggerated comparisons ("false compar"). These two last lines are what the poem is all about. These lines are the punchline of the joke.
What does Sonnet 130's speaker mean when she says that she walks on the ground with her feet?
My mistress walks on the ground when she walks: This is to suggest that Shakespeare's dark lady is not a goddess. He says that she does not float in air and that her music is far more appealing than her voice.
What does breasts are dun mean?
What is the central idea of the sonnet?
What is the main idea of the first quatrain of Sonnet 130?
What is the metaphor in Sonnet 130?
What literary devices are used in Sonnet 130?
- Internal rhyme.
- Sound Devices:
- Alliteration.
- Assonance.
- My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
- Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
- If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her.
- I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
What are the elements of a sonnet?
What is Shakespeare's definition of love?
What is the best summary of the central idea of Sonnet 130?
What is the rhyme scheme of the second quatrain?
How do I love thee meaning?
What details does the speaker provide in Sonnet 130?
What does I have seen roses Damasked red and white mean?
Where is the Volta in How Do I Love Thee?
Essentially it is saying that the speaker will love their partner more after death.
- Italian Sonnet.
- Rhyme Scheme: ABBA, ABBA, CD, CD, CD.
- Octave, Lines 1-8.
- Volta is Lines 8 & 9.
- Sestet is last 2 lines.
Which lines rhyme in each Shakespearean sonnet?
Why is Sonnet 130 a love poem?
What is the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet?
What are the characteristics of a Shakespearean sonnet?
- It consists of three quatrains and a couplet unlike the Italian division of an octave and a sestet.
- The meter is predominantly Iambic pentameter with each sonnet line consisting of ten syllables.
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