What is the central theme of the work? Answer: Instead of describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says she is average and there is nothing special about her. At the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by saying that even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is special and unique. So instead of praising her throughout the whole poem, he contrasts her average characteristics with his special love for her. 3.
In stanza one Mark Taylor stated that “thou” and “you” appear interchangeable: “Thou by the Indian Ganges side/ Shouldst rubies find” and “An hundred years should go to praise/ Thine eye, and on the forehead gaze” but “I would/love you ten years before the flood/ and you should, if you please, refuse,” “And the last age should show your heart,” and “Lady, you deserve this state.” (Taylor, Mark The Explicator. Washington). The first twenty lines of the poem start to talk about how much this girl means to this particular man. Time is depicted in three different manners. First, Marvell uses "ideal time."
In the first quatrain, instead of exaggerating the beauty of his lady’s eyes by claiming that they outshine the sun, this down-to-earth speaker asserts that those eyes are “nothing like the sun.” He fails to describe the eyes at all, but as he continues through other body parts, he becomes more expressive. Her lips are not as red as coral, though they are red, just not as red as coral. Her breasts are not as white as snow; they are actually a dun shade of brown, as all humans beings are various shades of brown. And her hair instead of silky strands look more like “black wires” sticking out of her head. It must be noted here that Shakespeare's reference to hair as 'wires' confuses modern readers because we assume it to mean our current definition of wire, i.e., a thread of metal, which is hardly a fitting word in the context of the poem.
My Mistress’ eyes are Nothing Like the Sun 1. Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg 2. The initial tone of the poem is Satirical and mocking. The poet does not direct the mocking tone at his Mistress, but rather at the world, who seems to believe that women and love is perfect and that no fault can be found with the one you love. The poet gives the impression of repulsiveness when he speaks of his Mistress’s hair and breath (“Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.” “If hair be wires, black wires grow on her head.”) He uses a tone of honesty when describing her unpleasant voice (which he loves to hear) and the way she walks (“I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound;” “My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.” He uses nature’s beauty to describe her complete imperfection in comparison to nature.
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.
A goddess walks by as the next line is read and while she is more beautiful than anything visualized up to now she is too perfect to truly desire. An average woman walks down a forest path barefoot and in a dress, she is not perfect and makes no claims to be. However, visualizing her causes stirrings in the heart, she makes you want to scream out your love for it is stronger due to her flaws for they make her more human (Shakespeare 631). Here we give one of [Shakespeare’s] sonnets (probably written in the mid-1500s), in which he playfully rejects similes and other figures of speech. His contemporaries often compared a woman’s hair to fine spun gold, her lips to coral or to cherries, her cheeks to roses, her white breast to snow; when such a woman walked, she seemed to walk on air (the grass did not bend beneath her),
What success Keat’s enjoyed was limited and one could say his ‘productive’ years came between the years 1817-1821 (Keats.com). It was during this time, 1820, that his poem, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”, was first published. In translation the title is “The Beautiful Lady without Mercy” and is commonly known in that form, though it was altered slightly from its first version written in 1819 (Reisman). ‘La Belle’ for short, is a poem in ballad form, with only 12 quatrains total in the ABCB rhyme scheme. The ABCB pattern simply means that the ending of the 2nd line rhymes with the ending of the 4th line, such as loitering and sing, found in the first stanza.
Although Georgiana was the most beautiful woman in the story, the birthmark proved to be her one imperfection. “No, dearest Georgiana, you came so nearly perfect from the hand of Nature that this slightest possible defect, which we hesitate whether to term a defect or a beauty, shocks me, as being the visible mark of earthly imperfection” (Meyers 402). Even though Georgiana was very attractive, the birthmark shows that she is still human. Aylmer wanted to rid his wife of the birthmark, but no human is capable of being portrayed as perfect. Since she cannot obtain perfection, Georgiana cannot be immortal.
Dove Real Beauty Nikki Henderson MKT/421 February 11, 2013 Instructor: Phillip Spivey Dove Real Beauty Envision a world where beauty is a basis of self-confidence and optimism instead of apprehension and disquiet. So many women are fixated on their appearance and almost all of them have something they dislike about their body. Whether that dissatisfaction is with a chubby tummy, crow's feet, acne scars, hair that is too curly or not curly enough, or even a spot of cellulite, often times the imperfection, or perceived imperfection, is blown way out of proportion (Fox, 1997). The imaginary faults are time and again overstated in their own minds and are repeatedly perpetuated by the media (Fox, 1997). Friends and family may see someone that is perfectly normal, beautiful even, but as far that individual woman is concerned, the image of beauty the world proliferates has become restrictive and unachievable (Fox, 1997).
She is like no other individual, different in every way, making her more complex and captivating. Jane Eyre appeals to me because although she is not beautiful, she is intelligent; she is not sweet but forgiving; and she is not affectionate but faithful. She goes forward even when all odds are against her. In Cinderella, Cinderella is a poor, unfortunate girl who has nothing; however, when she goes to the ball and sees the prince, he falls in love with her because of her beauty. Like Cinderella Jane is a poor, unfortunate girl when growing up.