An explanation of Sonnet CXXX

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English

 

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Carlos L

 

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November 23, 2014

 

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References to such objects of perfection are indeed present, but they are there to illustrate that his lover is not as beautiful. This is evident in the first quartet as he describes his lover in a rather bizarre fashion for the time. 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...
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A comparison is used in the second and third stanzas: her lips are compared to a coral's red but nothing that catches one's attention; her breasts are of a gray-brown tone. This reinforces the fact that she is human and not god-like. Her hair seems to be braided as the last stanza would imply. The next quartet continues in the same fashion...
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