"My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun" is a poem written by William Shakespeare about the love towards an imperfect woman. He explains that although his mistress is imperfect‚ he finds his love special and "rare." If the modern day reader is not careful‚ he/she might be quick to assume the role of the woman that Shakespeare writes about. Although the word mistress now refers to a sweetheart or a woman who lives with a man without being married to him‚ in Shakespeare’s time‚ it meant a woman
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Comparing: In Paris with You; His Coy Mistress Both poems are about love - love that has been lost‚ damaged and tainted. In Paris with You is the bitter tale of a man who tries to move on from a lover that has left the man broken‚ biting and bleak‚ his poem is a woeful tale of the breakdown of what was clearly a precious relationship that had soured over time leading the man into a spiral of distress and Paris. The title itself suggests his biting personality In Paris with You - when you initially
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“To his Coy Mistress” is a poem written by Andrew Marvell‚ which takes advantage of the idea of time passing (Carpe Diem) to convince his mistress to have sex with him in a dramatic monologue. The poet succeeds to write a quite convincing poem by using reasoning‚ metaphors‚ similes‚ and‚ most importantly (to me)‚ very striking imagery. The former is a very direct and undisguised kind of reasoning. The poet says what he means when he means it. The language he uses to do this is beautiful: the words
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Douglass shows in his writing that he truly does care for his mistress‚ but is upset with her. Frederick really does care about her‚ but upset because he is turning into a monster. First‚ he talks about her in a good way; also he describes how she treats him like a human at first; finally his mistress becomes violent and a monster‚ which made him more determined to read. First‚ Douglass talks about his mistress in a good way. In the beginning of his writing he says she is a kind
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Eye of the Beholder Shakespeare’s‚ “My Mistress’ Eyes are nothing like the Sun”‚ is a sonnet that contains fourteen lines. Each line possessing ten syllables and the meter of the sonnet is Iambic pentameter. In these fourteen lines Shakespeare beings to describe the beauty of his mistress and shows how she is still yet a human being with flaws. Shakespeare’s sonnet‚ “My Mistress’ Eyes are nothing like the Sun”‚ can be broken into four pieces‚ three quatrains and a couplet. This sonnet by Shakespeare
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Comparison of Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” and Robert Herrick’s “To the Virgins‚ to Make Much of Time” Time goes on and there are a lot of stuff that you need and want to get accomplished. People set up some certain goal for themselves and throughout their life; sooner or later they want them to get done. People are afraid of not getting their purpose compassed‚ because of the fact that time does not stop and sometimes you need to handle when time are close. This type of thinking and way of acting
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My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun William Shakespeare My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red: If snow be white‚ why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires‚ black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask’d‚ red and white‚ But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak‚--yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing
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of artists and just as Donne champions the libertine ideal in "To His Mistress Going to Bed"‚ so Marvell ’s "To His Coy Mistress" celebrates the metaphysical belief of "Carpe diem" or grasping the day. Both poets see man as a spontaneous and pragmatic being‚ destined to live one life only and needing to make the most of it. This need to satisfy one ’s earthly urgings is most clearly expressed by Marvell. In To his Coy Mistress Marvell presents to his lover an argument for lowering her defenses and
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In sharp contrast‚ sonnet 130 and 147 use dark diction to express the dark lady. In sonnet 130 the speaker uses comparison / “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;” to begin the sonnet to express the almost demonic mysterious appearance of the lady. Another comparison is the dark lady to a “goddess” and how a goddess does not walk‚ but rather floats‚ but the speaker’s lady “treads on the ground” (pp550). The speaker shows how his dark lady is far from perfect and may lack many of the qualities
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Micaela Oates #1. Robert Creely - ’Oh No’ (pg 411) At the end of the second line of Creely’s poem ‚he refers to the subject as a it.I did’nt know who what or where he meant when.I didnt know who or what the word ’it’ was referring to .The First line suggest that if wander far enough we will ultimately reach this it . Creely Imediately makes me feel that this it was a defenite‚a destination that will inevitabley be met.With this being said ‚ the use of the word wander suggest some kind of journey
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