Sunday, January 11, 2015

What might have been Shakespeare's intention in writing 'sonnet 130'?

I think It's a very powerful attack on the contemporary
poets who praised woman's beauty too much. So Shekespeare's intention might have been to
break the conventional ideas.


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Love looks not with the eyes but with the
mind


-William
Shakespeare-




Shekespeare
doesn't cling to the concept of ideal love, so i think here he might have needed to mock
at the conventional praise of women by the contempoarary
poets.


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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 of ancient Greece and
Rome
had established a tradition of this, which continued in Europe's customs
of href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtly_love">courtly love and in
courtly poetry, and the work of poets such as href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch">Petrarch. It was customary to
praise the beauty of the object of one's affections with comparisons to beautiful things
found in nature and heaven, such as stars in the night sky, the golden light of the
rising sun, or red roses. href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_130#cite_note-1">[1] The images
conjured by Shakespeare were common ones that would have been well-recognized by a
reader or listener of this sonnet.


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