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A 3 page paper which compares/contrasts William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 with Luther Vandross’ song “Here and Now” as it involves love. No additional sources cited.
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that most people, if not everyone, has experienced in their life, or at least desired in their life. One of the most desired and pondered forms of love is passionate
or romantic love, the love of a partner, generally the opposite sex in most poetry and literature and song. The following paper examines William Shakespeares Sonnet 130 and Luther Vandross
song "Here and Now" and compares/contrasts them as they illustrate real love. Shakespeare and Vandross: Love To many people who read Shakespeares sonnet it may seem that Shakespeare
is making fun of love. This poem is humorous in that it pokes fun at the romantic ideal love, presented in poetry, that speaks of a lover having lips and
elements that are beyond compare. In his sonnet he indicates his lover possesses none of these things. The first two lines state, "MY mistress eyes are nothing like the sun/
Coral is far more red than her lips red" (Shakespeare 1-2). He says that his lover, when she walks, "treads," and that music is far more pleasing than the sound
of her voice (Shakespeare 12). In Vandross song there is not really any sense that he is presenting an image of his lover. For example, when he speaks of
his lovers eyes he is saying, "When I look in your eyes/ There I see/ What all that a love should really be" (Vandross 24-26). He is looking at love,
and seeing love, and not making any presentation of her image, of her beauty, of her physical condition. It does not come into play in this song as it does
in Shakespeares sonnet. Shakespeare is, in essence, making fun of those poets who compare their lover to impossible things, something quite popular in
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