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This 4 page paper discusses Sonnet 130 by Shakespeare and Robert Frost’s “Fire and Ice.” Bibliography lists 6 sources
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paper explores one of Shakespeares sonnets, and a poem by Robert Frost, with regard to themes, word choice, language and metaphor; and other techniques. Discussion Well begin with Shakespeare, and
take Sonnet 130, which is an "anti-Petrarchan" sonnet (Abrams 1040 n.2). At the time Shakespeare was writing, the usual type of sonnet was (obviously) based on the ideals of Petrarch,
an Italian scholar and poet of the early Renaissance; these poems often featured a "despairing Petrarchan lover" (Abrams 1028). Shakespeares work did not. His sonnets are full of all kinds
of emotions including pride, shame, and melancholy but also delight and downright comedy (Abrams). So it is with Sonnet 130, which begins with the line "My mistress eyes are nothing
like the sun" (Shakespeare). Obviously, he is poking fun at the poets who describe their lovers in terms of nature: eyes like stars (or the sun); lips like cherries,
breasts white as snow and so on. If we stop to consider just what one of these ladies would look like if her eyes really were like the sun, wed
run screaming in the other direction. Shakespeare apparently felt the same, as he catalogs all the things his mistress is not: her lips are not red as coral; her breasts
are not white but dun colored; her hair is coarse and wiry (on her head; Shakespeare being Shakespeare we need to make that clear); she doesnt have roses in her
cheeks; and her breath is not is as sweet as perfume, nor is her speech as beautiful as music (Shakespeare). She doesnt walk on air and she isnt a goddess:
"And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare / As any she belied with false compare" (Lines 13-14). That is, "he thinks his beloved is as unique as
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