English Midterm

How are the mistress's eyes, lips, cheeks, breath, and voice inferior, according to Sonnet 130? Why does the speaker say she "treads on the ground"?

Her lips are not red as coral, her cheeks aren't like roses, her breath is not like perfume, her voice is not music He may mean that she is an earthly being, as opposed to idealized lovers who are compared to angels

To what is love compared in the second quatrain of Sonnet 116? Compare the effects of time on love with the ideal of love in the poem?

It is compared to the North star, love is similar to this object because although the times may change love will always remain the same. The idea of love remains unchanged even though it can come in many forms.

Identify two images in Sonnet 116 that show the effects on time. Compare the effects of time on love w the ideal of love in the poem

A) The North star: although time goes by it never changes, "It is an ever-fixed marked" (ln. 5) And a more literal image is also provided, "Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, ; But bears it out even to the edge of doom." (ln. 11-12). B) The sonnet states love never fades even after many years, time does not effect love. Love is not something that just comes and goes. The ideal love never changes and stays strong and can't be ride of.

In Sonnet 130, what does the final couplet say about the speaker's feeling? What general truth does the couplet suggest? In his sonnets, Petrarch worshiped his mistress. Why has Sonnet 130 been called anti-Petrachan?

The last lines are stating that the woman is just as beautiful as the other women. Ladies in the sonnet tradition were ideally beautiful. His love interest is not the blue-eyed blonde goddess of Petrarch's sonnets, we say that Shakespeare's sequence is anti-Petrarchan.

Who wrote Shakespearian Sonnets?

William Shakespeare