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Comment 7 of 7, added on June 25th, 2006 at 12:11 AM.
Nice poem focuses on that inner beauty is more important than outer beauty .
Rokshana Talukdar from Bangladesh
Comment 6 of 7, added on May 10th, 2006 at 6:05 PM.
I saw an interesting approach to this poem once at a Shakespeare Acting workshop. It was acted as if the poet, or speaker, was attempting to proclaim his love using the traditional structure of love poetry with traditional images (roses, snow, perfume, beautiful eyes, red lips, goddess comparisons) but was failing. So what you get is someone who begins a line with the very passsionate intention of talking about the beauty of his beloved, and ends the line by conceding her lack of external beauty.
My mistress' eyes are...[realizes]...nothing like the sun. [breath, starts again determined to be poetical about his lover] coral is far more red...[realizes]...than her lips' red. etc.
There is a rising and falling action, an attack and a defeat, in almost every line. In speaking the poem this way, "I love to hear her speak" becomes a breakthrough. It is the first time he has spoken about a good quality of hers, but it is quickly abandoned once he considers music. By the end of the first 12 lines, the speaker is totally defeated by reason only to rise again in the last couplet with total abandon to claim his mistress with every ounce of his being. Pretty powerful...and funny.
There is another funn approach I saw as well. I watched someone get off on all the mistress' "bad" qualities. The fact that his mistress' breath is bad and she has black wires growing out of her head have the potential to be spoken in the same way as if they were amazing qualities. Very funny.
John from United States
Comment 5 of 7, added on April 5th, 2006 at 11:42 PM.
Shakespeare is trying to get through to his society. He wittingly ridicules society’s placement of value on a woman’s outward appearance. Shakespeare is ahead of his time, not mention his species, in realizing that a woman's worth is her mind and person.
Brittney from United States
Comment 4 of 7, added on November 20th, 2005 at 1:48 PM.
Analysis: Unemployed middle class man in elizebeathen times +opium = this sonnet
Heywood Jablome from Bahamas
Comment 3 of 7, added on November 8th, 2005 at 9:59 AM.
This sonnet is a tribute to Shakespeare's Lady. What matters to Shakespeare is the natural, ordinary, average beaty of his woman and not stunning beaty which is usually described by poets (about their ladies) using metaphors. They are also present but against themselves. They are there to illustrate the imperfection of his lady. The ending states that despite of all that, Shakespeare proclaims his love for his mistress and women shouldn't be described by poets with some untrue comparisons.
Alice from Poland
Comment 2 of 7, added on March 23rd, 2005 at 2:50 AM.
i think this poem is the best poem that Shakespeare had written because he shows that true love what it looks to the person's personality not appearance. if it is possiblr i need analysis for it.
yoyo from Oman
Comment 1 of 7, added on December 9th, 2004 at 4:14 AM.
Please help, i have to anaylise how William Shakespeare approaches the theme of love in sonnet 130...
ASAP
maria from Portugal
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Nice poem focuses on that inner beauty is more important than outer beauty .
Rokshana Talukdar from Bangladesh