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Sonnet cxxx project work
1. Sonnet CXXX
By : SHAKESPEARE
An unconventional love poem about
the “Dark Lady”
2. PRESENTED BY:-
BBM – A (2014-17)
GROUP 11
KUMARI HARSHITA
PRITESH REDDY
VISHWASAI
YASH GOVIL
GAURAV DEY
MARUTESH
3. What is a sonnet?
A sonnet is a 14 line poem which traditionally is
used as a way to declare love for someone – you
say brilliant things about them and tell them
how much you love them!
What sort of things would you put in a sonnet?
Think of ways to compliment someone – did
they feature in your original list of love poetry?
Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets. The lady
spoken about in this sonnet is featured in
Sonnets 127 to 154. she is known as ‘The Dark
Lady’
Early sonnets are based on the Petrarchan model
(which follows a different rhyme scheme),
however, the focus of the sonnet remains the
same – idolising the woman and making her an
‘inspiration’.
4. SONNET CXXX
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 damasked, 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.
5. EXPLAINATION
She has dark eyes, her lips are not red. Her breasts are
not as white as snow and she has black hair She has
pale cheeks, he is also saying that her breath doesn’t
smell as good as some perfumes. He loves to hear her
speak, but he knows that music has a more pleasing
sound than her voice; He’s never seen a goddess
walk, but he knows that she walks only on the ground.
Even though she is not special, his love for her is still
unique
9. If hairs be wires, black wires grow
on her head.
10. I have seen roses damasked, red and
white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
11. And in some perfumes is there
more delight
Than in the breath that from my
mistress reeks.
12. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
13. I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
14. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
15. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
The poet is satirising the tradition of comparing one’s love
to all things beautiful, divine and immortal.
He makes many negative comparisons.
But these final lines suggest that she is beyond all these
things just by being herself: mortal and approachable.
Rare = precious, superb, of fine and unusual quality
He thinks that his love is more special, than those which are
based on superficial comparisons.
16. FORM
Shakespeare does follow traditional English
sonnets as Sonnet 130 as 14 lines and it follows
the rhyming scheme ABABCDCD etc. By using
the tradition rhyme scheme of English Sonnets,
Shakespeare can be said to be using it to parody
the hyperbolic nature in which poets expressed
their love for others.
17. POETIC FEATURES
The poet uses parallelism to compare his love to the standards of ladies in
Petrarchan poetry ‘If snow be white, why her breasts are dun’. The effect of
the parallelism is it makes the contents of the poem clear and the audience
knows exactly why the poet dissatisfied with his love.
There is a lot of negative imagery in this sonnet. By creating imagery then
not continuing with it and then describing a new image, Shakespeare builds
up the poem and brings it back down, creates drama and keeps the reader’s
interest as they want to know where the poem will go next.
The effect of the tripling ‘damasked, red and white,’ builds up the beauty the
poet has seen in the rose. By building up the beauty in the rose, it causes a
sharp contrast between the rose and the poet’s love, who does not measure
up when compared to the rose.
In this poem as in many poems roses symbolise romance. In this poem
Shakespeare uses the rose to compare idealised romance ‘I have seene Roses
damaskt’ to reality ‘no such Roses see I in her cheeks’.
18. Summary of Sonnet CXXX:
• In this sonnet Shakespeare compares his lover to a
number of other beauties—and never in the lover’s
favor. According to him;
• Her eyes are “nothing like the sun”
• her lips are less red than coral
• compared to white snow, her breasts are dun-colored
• her hairs are like black wires on her head
• In the second quatrain, the speaker says
• he has seen roses separated by color (“damasked”)
into red and white, but he sees no such roses in his
mistress’s cheeks
• he says the breath t “reeks” from his mistress and is
less delightful than perfume
19. SUMMARY CONTINUED….
In the third quatrain, he admits that,
though he loves her voice, music “hath a far more
pleasing sound”
that, though he has never seen a goddess, his mistress—
unlike goddesses—walks on the ground
In the couplet, however, the speaker declares that, “by
heaven,” he thinks his love
as rare and valuable
“As any she belied with false compare”—that is, any
love in which false comparisons were invoked to
describe the loved one’s beauty
20. COMPARISON
In this sonnet, Shakespeare draws on
sight, sound and smell when he
compares
his mistress' eyes to the sun
her lips to red coral
her breasts to white snow
her hair to black wires
her cheeks to red and white roses
her breath to perfume
her voice to music
21. COMPARISON (CONTINUED…)
Shakespeare comparing her to natural objects, he notes
that
her eyes are "nothing like the sun," and
the colors of her lips and breasts dull when compared to
the red of coral and the whiteness of snow
her smell reeks – The ideal woman in a poem probably
isn't supposed to smell at all, unless she smells like
perfume, here she has a stench- foul breath
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground
that her hair is black, he describes them in a derogatory
way ,"black wires grow on her head’
