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Apr 12, 2006 21:08

Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 has always intrigued me. I remember in High School spending a lesson on how Shakespeare used this sonnet as a parody on the way that Elizabethan and Petrarchan poets always used their words in sugar-coated ways to romanticize the way that they viewed their lovers. There are several poems that Shakespeare used as a basis ( Read more... )

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the love jieunlove85 April 28 2006, 17:23:32 UTC
I agree that being non perfect is what we are,
But the latter two poems, couldnt they actually be saying thats what they see of their loved ones? so, to them they are perfect, but to us, they may not be.
that is, shakespeare sees from anothers perspective,
and the latter two see it from their own perspective??

am i making sense?

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