ENG 1501 Assignment 1 – Poetry My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun By William Shakespeare Table of contents: Content: Page number: Introduction 3 Question 1-2 4 Question 2 cont. 5 Question 3 6 Question 3 cont.-4 7 Question 5 8 Question 6 9 Question 7 10 Conclusion 11 bibliography 12 Introduction: Sonnet 130 satirizes the concept of ideal beauty that was a convention of literature and art in general during the Elizabethan era. Influences originating with the poetry
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Shakespeare uses the technique well in conjunction with other techniques to make his point stronger. These ideas are introduced in the first quatrain “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun‚” this simile sets up the seemingly negative comparison extended through the text. And also involves positive imagery. Shakespeare compares his mistress eyes that are nothing like the natural image of the sun. This idea of natural imagery is used throughout the poem as it was seen as conventional beauty in
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pretty much all she had to offer. William Shakespeare wrote a sonnet titled “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” and in this story the speaker shows the reader that outer beauty is not the most important feature in a significant other. The speaker opens the poem with the assertion “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;” (line 1). Right off the bat he is expressing negative attributes about his mistress‚ or so we think. Does anyone really want to look into a person’s eyes and be blinded
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fourth sister‚ who is the main character of the film‚ Songlian. Three sisters like to tease her many times. The first mistress is an older woman who lives there a long time with a child. The second mistress is more friendly to Songlian‚ but she cannot trust to be because Songlian’s Maid Yo’na told her with a doll which has her name on that she wanted her killed. Lastly‚ the third mistress is spoiled that she wants her husband who is every sister husband‚ every night by lying him when he is with Songlian
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my eternal verse you will live forever. | So long as men can breathe or eyes can see‚ | So long as there are people on this earth‚ | So long lives this and this gives life to thee. | So long will this poem live on‚ making you immortal | My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; | My mistress’s eyes are nothing like the sun; | Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; | Coral is far more red than her lips; | If snow be white‚ why then her breasts are dun; | If snow is white‚ then her
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Shakespeare’s Mistress Was Only Human In William Shakespeare’s [My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun] he talks about his mistress as being less then all the things that he compares her to. In some ways this is a good thing‚ but yet again it is a little hurtful and actually a bet cruel. However in the last few stanzas he states that if this woman was not a human‚ they would not be able to love each other. Even though Shakespeare is in a way insulting his mistress it is more heart felt
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what you see by changing how you see” (Huie). This quote relates to “Sonnet 130‚” by William Shakespeare and “Ars Poetica‚” by Archibald Mac Leish. Sonnet 130 is about the faults of his mistress‚ but realizes by the end of the poem‚ that his love is all that matters. This man did not see his mistress as an ugly woman‚ but instead saw her as someone whom he loves dearly. In a different way‚ Ars Poetica states that “a poem should not mean‚ but be” (MacLeish 23). People who read a poem
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carpe diem. The poem stresses the idea of marriage while love and flesh are still young and believes this gift of virginity to be a great waste if not given while it is still desirable. Marvell also uses the carpe diem theme to his poem ‘To His Coy Mistress‚’ however with three certain sections within the poem. The first part elaborates on the idea of unlimited time; this then evolves a ‘but’ into the poem that everything must come to end and death catches up upon us. Then in the last third of the poem
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elements of poetic technique that he make use of in trying to convey the message in his poems that makes his poetry not only significantly beautiful but also meaningful. William Shakespeare’s one hundred and thirtieth Sonnet‚ "My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun" narrates a story on the subject of love. Shakespeare’s main theme in the poem is none other but to emphasize the deeper meaning of love‚ love is much more important and meaningful than just the attraction of an individual’s
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ENG 1501 Assignment 01 Unique Number : 221494 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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