1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Pachacha [2.7K]
3 years ago
7

How does Shakespeare use literary devices"My mistress' eyes" and what purpose do they serve?

Advanced Placement (AP)
1 answer:
Aleksandr [31]3 years ago
5 0
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.

Summary: Sonnet 130
This sonnet compares the speaker’s lover to a number of other beauties—and never in the lover’s favor. Her eyes are “nothing like the sun,” her lips are less red than coral; compared to white snow, her breasts are dun-colored, and 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; and he says the breath that “reeks” from his mistress is less delightful than perfume. In the third quatrain, he admits that, though he loves her voice, music “hath a far more pleasing sound,” and 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 heav’n,” 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.

Hope I can help you!
You might be interested in
Could a Congressman be appointed by the president to serve as a cabinet member and keep his job in Congress?
elena55 [62]
No, he has to first resign his job in congress

4 0
3 years ago
Bài 1: Bốn nhóm người cùng sản xuất ra một loại hàng hoá.
Nadya [2.5K]
Oh hey there ain’t nothing lol I swear to my sister in my house and my mom and I are so scared of it all over there so we. Yea
8 0
2 years ago
Which document influenced our 3rd amendment eight of not having to quarter or house soldiers in our homes?
KiRa [710]

Answer: English Bill Of Rights is the correct answer

Explanation: This was passed by Congress September 25, 1789. Ratified December 15, 1791. The first 10 amendments form the Bill of Rights

6 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
How will mutations be useful in achieving your goal color
aev [14]
Idk Sorry   :-( :-)      I wish I could help                
6 0
3 years ago
How does fecal coliform get into the water?
Oksana_A [137]

Answer:

Fecal contamination can arise from sources such as combined sewer overflows, leaking septic tanks, sewer malfunctions, contaminated storm drains, animal feedlots, and other sources. ... coli may be washed into creeks, rivers, streams, lakes, or ground water

Explanation:

8 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • It is hard for identity thieves to steal any identity in today’s society.
    15·2 answers
  • Does the 14th amendment apply outside the country?
    5·2 answers
  • What happens to a child during an asthma attack
    9·1 answer
  • ANSWER QUICK
    15·2 answers
  • 1. Money is considered to be a(n)
    9·2 answers
  • How has the appointment of SCOTUS Justices become more political? Give examples.
    5·1 answer
  • What major social movement contributed to the development of social work that began in england and took hold in buffalo NY 1877
    13·1 answer
  • Plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzoko3pdoojfi4jflll
    15·1 answer
  • I need severe help. Will give brainliest to whoever answers correctly.
    7·2 answers
  • What does the simile mean between a roller coaster can feel like flying
    9·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!