How Does Shakespeare Describe His Beloved In Sonne

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How Shakespeare love is unique towards his beloved in ‘Sonnet 130’? Ans; Shakespeare is one of the greatest English sonneteer and also a modern poet. In his sonnet 130 he describes his beloved beauty in an anti Petrarchan way. He dose not exaggerate his beloved beauty like other poet in that time. He describes that his beloved is nothing unusual in the world and she is as simple as a women on the ground. But yet his love toward his beloved is unique because he dose not bestowed her with any false compare like other poet of the time yet his love is rare. Shakespeare dose not attribute his beloved with any false compare like other poet of Elizabethan period in his ‘Sonnet 130’. He describes his love in a realistic way. His love is unique from other in this point that he describes her in a simple way. The sonnet opens with ‘My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun Coral is far more red than her lips red’ In this period every poet describes their beloved eyes like sun. But he dose not find any similarity with sun and his beloved eyes. Her eyes are not as bright as sun. Even he finds that coral is more red than his mistress lips. Like this way in the whole sonnet he describes that snow is white but her breast is dun. black wires grow in her head instead of golden wires. ‘I have seen roses damasked, red and white But no such roses see I in her cheeks’; Where everyone describes his beloved cheeks with rose, he dose not find any similarity between rose and his beloved cheeks. Again he describes that though he loves to talk with his beloved, some music have more pleasant sound. ‘I grant, I never saw a goddess go My mistress when she walks, trends on the ground’. He describes that his beloved is

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