18 Oct Write an essay to describe the meaning in Shakespeare’s Sonnet

Write an essay to describe the meaning in Shakespeare’s Sonnet

1. The thesis statement should state the theme of the poem.

2. Find three main ideas that work together to create the theme. These main ideas will become the topic sentences of your body paragraphs.

3. In the body of your essay, use at least one example from (a) and at least two examples from (b):a. devices of sound/music: how rhyme, meter, alliteration and/or assonance add force to the meaning of the word sb. devices of language: imagery– how word(s) that refer to sensory experience create meaning figures of speech– how simile, metaphor, personification symbol—an object that suggests further meaning in addition to itself tone —the speaker’s attitude (an emotion word)

Sonnet 130

My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;

Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;

If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;

If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

I have seen roses damask’d, red and white,

But no such roses see I in her cheeks;

And in some perfumes is there more delight

Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

I love to hear her speak, yet well I know

That music hath a far more pleasing sound;

I grant I never saw a goddess go;

My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:

And yet, by heaven,

I think my love as rare

As any she belied with false compare.