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TimestampChoose your classYour HouseYour name1. Who is the speaker of the poem? 2. Who is the audience for the poem? 4. Use line numbers to indicate the poem's major thought divisions.5. "Sonnet 130" contains a simile and several metaphors, but they are not used to describe the speaker’s mistress. Rather, each description undermines the comparison. List these undermined comparisons by filling in the following gaps: “the mistress' eyes do not shine like the sun, her lips…, her skin…, her hair…, her cheeks…, her breath…, her speech…, and her gait is not a glide."6. "Sonnet 130" is a blason (a type of poetry that compares a woman’s attributes to precious or beautiful things). Still: compare the descriptions of the “mistress” in "Sonnet 130" to the over-the-top praise of the beloved in “My Lady’s Presence Makes the Roses Red” and “Her Face.” In what way is Shakespeare’s speaker responding to this type of extravagant love poetry?8a. What is the tone of the poem? 8b. From what key words or phrases did you deduce the poem's tone?9. The final rhyming couplet contains the sonnet’s volta (a turn in thought often indicated by such words as “But,” “Yet,” or “And yet”). How do these last two lines change the poem’s tone, and its sense of intimacy? How are they a further criticism of hyperbolic love poetry?10. "Sonnet 130" gets its name from the fact that Shakespeare wrote 129 sonnets before it (and 24 after), all of them in iambic pentameter (five beats) and rhyming ABABCDCDEFEFGG. Sonnets 127-54 concern a woman who has come to be known as “the dark lady.” If the “dark lady” was a real person, do you think Shakespeare intended her to read this sonnet? Why or why not? 11. Based on all the above, what is poem's central viewpoint or insight about Love?
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UnknownThe readerThe punctuation shows the thoughts to be

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12-14		her lips are not red or even coral,
her skin is an ugly color,
her hair is frizzy(?),
her cheeks are colorless,
her breath stinks,
her speech is not pleasant to the speaker,
and her gait is not a glide
I think Shakespeare was trying to illustrate the reality of love and a relationship. It seems like a sarcastic, somewhat comedic rebellion against the other poems comparisons to the sun, colors, flowers, etc. sincere/honest,

ironic		"And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare"The last two lines make it clear that he was not criticizing her in the preceding lines. It changes the tone to one of realistic adoration and honesty, which is one of the most intimate ways to express one's self. They are a criticism of hyperbolic love poetry because he is implying that exaggerated comparisons are not necessary for proclaiming your love for someone. Or maybe that if you need to exaggerate you might not really be adoring the person for who she really is.I think it was intended for her to read if those poems concern no other females. Especially, since he clearly accepts her for all of her flaws in Sonnet 130 it wouldn't surprise me if he was in love with a "dark lady".If love is true, you must accept all characteristics of the other person, good or bad.
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