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Date Posted: 13:21:09 03/18/03 Tue
Author: Nellie Placencia
Subject: Re: SONNET #130 (STUDENTS PLEASE READ!)
In reply to: Mrs. G. (for Mrs. Moya) :-) 's message, "SONNET #130 (STUDENTS PLEASE READ!)" on 20:21:32 03/11/03 Tue

>After reading & paraphrasing Sonnet 130 on your own,
>explain the following:
>
>1. Explain the couplet at the end of this sonnet. How
>does it alter the meaning of the sonnet?
>Throughout this sonnet Shakespeare describes a woman who isn't as beautiful as others. He describes how he loves to hear her speak, although music is much better, and how her hair is like black wires coming out of her head. But the couplet in the end means that although she isn't incredibly beautiful to the outside world, she is beautiful and rare to the poet becuase he loves her, and that makes her beautiful to him.
>2. How does Shakespeare mock aspects of the
>traditional sonnet in Sonnet 130?
In his sonnets, he usually gives a straitforward statement, but in this one he doesn't. He talks about this lady like she isn't a beautiful, good person, but in the end he turns it around and says that dispite all that, he loves her and this makes her beautiful.

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