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	SparkNotes: Shakespeare's Sonnets: Sonnet 130
		This sonnet, one of Shakespeare's most famous, plays an elaborate joke on the conventions of love poetry common to Shakespeare's day, and it is so well-conceived that the joke remains funny today.
		In the sonnets, Petrarch praises her beauty, her worth, and her perfection using an extraordinary variety of metaphors based largely on natural beauties.
		The rhetorical structure of Sonnet 130 is important to its effect.
	www.sparknotes.com /shakespeare/shakesonnets/section10.rhtml (654 words)

	The amazing web site of Shakespeare's Sonnets
		All the sonnets are provided here, with descriptive commentary attached to each one, giving explanations of difficult and unfamiliar words and phrases, and with a full analysis of any special problems of interpretation which arise.
		Sonnets by other Elizabethan poets are also included, Spenser, Sidney, Drayton and a few other minor authors.
		Sonnets which were published and probably written before Shakespeare's, and influenced both the material he used and the arrangement of his sonnet sequence.
	www.shakespeares-sonnets.com (0 words)

	Shakespearean Sonnets @Web English Teacher
		Students examine the structure of a sonnet, tap out the rhythm of iambic pentameter, and write their own sonnets.
		With emphasis on Sonnet 29, "this is an introductory lesson for students first encountering a Shakespeare play or sonnet and/or in conjunction with Civil Rights studies." Don't miss the audio clip of Maya Angelou reading the first 4 lines.
		Directions and rubric for a sonnet writing activity and a sonnet analysis project are included.
	www.webenglishteacher.com /shakesonnets.html (0 words)

	Sonnet 130 Appreciation Essay -- Essay at LiteratureClassics.com
		Shakespeare’s Sonnets, a collection of over one hundred poems, are widely considered to be some of the most insightful and powerful poems of all time.
		The structure of the sonnet is in the form of a eight-line octet followed by a six-line sestet.
		As in most Sonnets, emphasis is placed on every second syllable in the poem and there are normally five sets of these per line – this is known as ‘iambic pentameters’.
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	Analysis of sonnet 130 by shakespeare - CheatHouse.com
		Sonnet 130 is Shakespeare's rather lackluster tribute to his Lady, commonly referred to as the dark lady because she seems to be non-white (fl wires for hair, etc).
		Sonnet 130 is clearly a parody of the conventional and traditional love sonnet, made popular by Petrarch and, in particular, made popular in England by Sidney's use of the Petrarchan form in his epic poem "Astrophel and Stella".
		In sonnet 130, the references to such objects of perfection are indeed present, but they are there to illustrate that his lover is not as beautiful -- a total rejection of Petrarch form and content.
	www.cheathouse.com /essay/essay_view.php?p_essay_id=34135 (508 words)

	Sonnet 130
		Sonnet 130 is clearly a parody of the conventional and traditional love sonnet, made popular by Petrarch and, in particular, made popular in England by Sidney's use of the Petrarchan form in his epic poem "Astrophel and Stella".
		In Sonnet 130, the speaker describes the woman that he loves in extremely unflattering terms but claims that he truly loves her, which lends credibility to his claim because even though he does not find her attractive, he still declares his love for her.
		The sentences of Sonnet 130 are written in iambic pentameter, with ten syllables and a pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables.
	www.stthomasu.ca /inkshed/inkshed22/130.htm (2053 words)

	Analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 130
		Sonnet 130 is Shakespeare's rather lackluster tribute to his Lady, commonly referred to as the dark lady because she seems to be non-white (fl wires for hair, etc).
		In sonnet 130, there is no use of grandiose metaphor or allusion -- he does not compare his love to Venus; there is no evocation to Morpheus, etc. The ordinary beauty and humanity of his lover are what is important to Shakespeare in this sonnet, and he deliberately uses typical love poetry metaphors against themselves.
		In sonnet 130, the references to such objects of perfection are indeed present, but they are there to illustrate that his lover is not as beautiful -- a total rejection of Petrarch form and content.
	www.shakespeare-online.com /sonnets/130detail.html (636 words)

	Dissertations, Essays on sonnet 130
		Sonnet 130 This Shakespeare sonnet talks about the contrasts of the speaker’s lover and the beauties of the world.
		The writer decides not to follow the crowd of praising women in the love poems, but to tell the truth about them, for her eyes are really nothing like the sun.
		All in all, this sonnet is a joke on the conventions of love poetry at the time.
	www.essayboom.com /essay/sonnet_130-81285.html (168 words)

	WowEssays.com - Sonnet 130
		“Sonnet 130” sounds as if it is mocking all of the other poems of Shakespeare’s era.
		“Sonnet 130” takes the love poem to a deeper, more intimate level where looks are no longer important and it is inner beauty that matters.
		It seems as though Shakespeare had just finished reading a sonnet of the era that was written about someone’s mistress having eyes like the sun and lips as red as coral.
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	The Sonnet
		A typical theme of the sonnet is love; usually they are written from a male perspective, praising a woman for her beauty while criticizing her for not reciprocating the poet's feelings for her.
		Thomas Hardy's sonnet "Hap," for example, develops an argument about the nature of God and the poet's sense of the universe's indifference to the suffering of mankind.
		William Wordsworth's sonnet "The World is Too Much With Us" vents the poet's frustration with a world that has lost its spiritual contact with the natural world as a result of economic, industrial, and technological innovation.
	www.bsu.edu /classes/prince/eng104/sonnet.htm (0 words)

	Shakespeare's Sonnets. The amazing web site. Commentary. Sonnet 130.
		It is often said that the praise of his mistress is so negative that the reader is left with the impression that she is almost unlovable.
		On the contrary, although the octet makes many negative comparisons, the sestet contrives to make one believe that the sound of her voice is sweeter than any music, and that she far outdistances any goddess in her merely human beauties and her mortal approachability.
		A typical sonnet of the time which uses lofty comparisons to praise a beloved idol is given below.
	www.shakespeares-sonnets.com /130comm.htm (0 words)

	SONNET 130. Free term papers for college, book reports and research papers. Welcome to Essay Express
		Examines a number of sonnets from Shakespeare's sonnet cycle, deciphers them, explains how they are constructed and explores the ways in which they anticipated the Metaphysical movement in poetry.
		"Sonnet 130" sounds as if it is mocking all of the other poems of Shakespeare's era.
		"Sonnet 130" takes the love poem to a deeper, more intimate level where looks are no longer important and it is inner beauty that matters.
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	Fri Sept 30: 130 (nothing like the sun) and 129 (lust in action)—for 129, do “sense in Po” page 160, today, and ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Attempt # 1: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 objects to the exaggerated idealizing of one’s beloved that is found in conventional Petrarchan sonnets.
		Diction: Sonnet 130 has conventional idealized diction which is contrasted with “shock words,” words which are supposedly insulting and “low.” The diction contributes to the contrast described above.
		Imagery: 130 has contrasting comparisons which also contribute to the contrast, which is part of the main point.
	flash.lakeheadu.ca /~emurray/PreparingAnExplicationViaSonnet130.htm (696 words)

	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130), for example, presupposes a knowledge of how the beloved is traditionally praised in sonnet sequences.
		Yet sonnet writers from the sixteenth to the twentieth century have continued to find ways of making this old form new, stretching and tweaking and morphing its features to suit new circumstances, new tastes, new purposes.
		Now that they know a little about the various stages of sonnet development, students are ready to look through the contents of the Sonnet Bank and choose an interesting sonnet from any historical period.
	edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?id=365 (0 words)

	William Shakespeare Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.
		William Shakespeare Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.
		Sonnet 130 "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"
		Sonnet 116 "Let me not to marriage of true minds admit impediments"
	www.albionmich.com /inspiration/mymistresseyes.html (0 words)

	Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun Analysis William Shakespeare : Summary Explanation Meaning ...
		Sonnet 130: My mistress'; eyes are nothing like the sun Analysis
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		Sonnet 130: My mistress'; eyes are nothing like the sun Analysis William Shakespeare Characters archetypes.
	www.eliteskills.com /c/13024 (415 words)

	UNIT: The History and Form of the Sonnet -Folger Shakespeare Library
		This unit is a useful lead-in to Romeo and Juliet, because it introduces the way Shakespeare plays with the conventions of the Petrarchan sonnet to manipulate the audience’s expectations and understanding of the idea of love.
		In the sonnets covered in this unit, the form evolves, each sonnet using and developing the conventions exhibited in the previous poem.
		4. Lecture on the evolution of the sonnet, and its adaptation by Elizabethan sonneteers.
	www.folger.edu /eduLesPlanDtl.cfm?lpid=726 (0 words)

	Sonnet 130-- rude or reality?
		LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education, finds the most innovative and successful practices in K–12 education and makes them available to the teachers and students of North Carolina — and the world.
		This lesson focuses on Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130." It contains a copy of the sonnet, questions to use when discussing and analyzing the sonnet, and a creative component.
		Part of the assessment will be based on completion of the Analyzing "Sonnet 130" worksheet and the two opinion questions at the bottom.
	www.learnnc.org /lessons/eemackie952004583 (0 words)

	Re: i would like to paraphrase sonnet 130. : The Sonnets
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	Poems about Sonnet - song poem lyric satire at Old Poetry
		Sonnet LXV: Is love a pleasure or a pain in mask"
		Sonnet XXXVI: "If dreaming of thee be a waste of time"
		Sonnet XXIII: "I have thy love, and were I drunk with joy"
	oldpoetry.com /tag/show/Sonnet (562 words)

	iB::Topic::sonnet 130 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I took a poetry class last year, and this was the ONE sonnet (Shakespearean or otherwise) that we studied.
		Also, the basic theme of this sonnet is anti-Petrarchan...Petrarch was a man who wrote a sonnet cycle about his love for a woman named Laura, who completely shunned him in every way.
		In a world and time where girls grow up thinking 90 pounds is way too fat, and people spend their money on items that expound upon their beauty, we need to realize that true beauty lies within.
	shakespearehigh.com /cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST&f=7&t=17 (950 words)

	AcademicDB - William Shakespeare - Sonnet 130
		This document is part of AcademicDB, a database of over 15,000 UK university essays and coursework documents written by UK university students covering all subject areas.
		Natalie Champagne Poetry Analysis William Shakespeare Sonnet 130 Sonnet 130, Written by William Shakespeare, is a beautiful poem that captures the realistic beauty of a woman Shakespeare refers to as his "mistress".
		Upon first reading this poem the conclusion that it is written about a woman he finds unattractive is easily reached.
	www.academicdb.com /william_shakespeare_-_sonnet_4659 (250 words)

	Essay Info :: Analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 130
		Shakespeare’s sonnet 130 belongs to the group of sonnets addressed to the Dark Lady.
		In the Petrarchan sonnet it was usual to compare women’s features to nature and to liken the mistress to a goddess.
		We can read the poem as a parody on the traditional love sonnet and there is no doubt that in the sonnet Shakespeare refuses the poetic conventions, but the question is why would he want to do so.
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	Sonnet 130 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sonnet the 130 "eyes of my lovers is not nothing like the sun"
		Sonnet 116 "let me to the union of true minds not admit impedimientos"
		The author of the page of Sonnets of the love has tried the product down and she endorses it.
	sonnet.flohere.com /sonnet-130.htm (382 words)

	Sonnets Sonnet 130—My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
		Sonnet 35—No more be grieved at that which thou hast done
		Sonnet 91—Some glory in their birth, some in their skill
		Sonnet 138—When my love swears that she is made of truth
	www.enotes.com /sonnets/1037 (431 words)

	Entmoot - Sonnet 130
		is a satire of other sonnet writers, whom contend the objects of their works have rosey cheeks.
		It's a great mockery of all the other sonnets that were being written at the time (including some of Shakespeare's), which tended toward, as has been mentioned, deification of their subject.
		Plus, in a Shakespearian style of sonnet, the last two lines are supposed to undercut the rest of the poem: so if they are complimentary, the rest of it has to not be.
	entmoot.tolkientrail.com /showthread.php?t=10778 (1628 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: Sonnet 130
		Librivox's weekly poetry project for the week of March 5, 2006: Sonnet 130, by William Shakespeare.
		This sonnet offers a look into the Elizabethan ideal of womanly beauty, then turns it on its head with wry realism.
		Sonnet 130 - Read by LF Sonnet 130 - Read by mac
	www.archive.org /details/sonnet_130_librivox (152 words)

	Literature Curriculum Project
		Students read four sonnets by William Shakespeare including Sonnet 130.
		Today, students will listen to Harryette Mullen read her poem “Dim Lady”, compare and contrast the poem with Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130, and write their own sonnets based on one of the four Shakespeare sonnets they have read.
		RESOURCES/MATERIALS: Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare; “Dim Lady” by Harryette Mullen – Naropa Archive reading SWP 1998/2000?; text found in Mullen’s book Sleeping With the Dictionary (2002).
	www.naropa.edu /archive/syllabi/syl_mullen_dimlady.cfm (0 words)

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		Sir Phillip Sidney's Sonnet # 47 from Astrophil and Stella The sonnet is a short concise form of writing and it takes a great mind to master it.
		"Sonnet 130" takes the love poem to a deeper, more intimate level where looks...
		Sonnet 73: That Time of Year Thou Mayest in Me Behold This sonnet by William Shakespeare can be regarded as a quite regular representation of what is called a Shakespearean sonnet.
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	Poetry X » Poetry Archives » William Shakespeare » "Sonnet 130: My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing ...
		Sonnet 130: My Mistress’; Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun
		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, fl wires grow on her head.
		Tags, sometimes called “folksonomies,” are words that describe or categorize a poem, like “20th century modernism” or “Italian sonnet”.
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