An Anti-Petrarchan Love Poem: Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, Appunti di Letteratura Inglese

Scarica An Anti-Petrarchan Love Poem: Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 e più Appunti in PDF di Letteratura Inglese solo su Docsity! Appunti lezione asincrona 18/02 (Sonnet 130) William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and then died in 1616. His sonnets were written between 1593 and 1603 (28 addressed to the dark lady, more focused on the moral side of the woman. She is immoral because she causes the poet's pain, because she is cruel in her seductive actitude). This sonnet develops an anti-petrarchan stanza (but explicit relation with these sonnets) since it denies any idealisation of all kind. There are hyperbolics attributes and cliches. The speaker here claims that he is speaking the thuth (does not use lie, or false compares like says in line 14). Makes use of a negative modality, he tells us what his mistress IS NOT (not conventionally fair or beautiful). First quatraine is all about her physical appearance (what she is not). The second reinforces the fact that she is not the ideal woman, beautiful like the others. This poem is also about how love can be differently coincived by lovers (beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as Oscar Wilde said). It is a HONEST LOVE POEM, so has given her a hightened beauty (this woman may be ugly outside, but she is beautiful inside. APPEARANCE can not connote any individual. The unsaid is more important than the said). The sonet is also based on the relationship between ideal female beauty and the male desire (could be created by a woman that is different from the ideal standard of her) but also a disjunction between men (the ideal woman is almost impossible to find in nature, so it is normal that she does not represent the ideal woman for everyone). There can be different kinds of love and beauty, he seems to suggest that also goddesses are sometimes overrated and normal women can be even better. Idea of Elizabethian poetry is to elevate one's love to an almost unachievable level, to transform a normal woman into a sort of goddess (here is the contrary, because he brings her back to earth, and not in a negative sense. He loves her for WHAT AND WHO SHE IS). Metre: enjambic pentametres, 5 enjambic feet per line, each foot consisting of a non-stressed syllable, followed by a stressed one. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (the eye of heaven in sonnet 18, associated with gold and brightness, common place hyperbole in general, but not here); (negative mode already emerges) Coral (regarded as an image of perfection for the perfect woman) is far more red than her lips' red; (line is particular, because begins with a trochy (stressed before) (unortodox fashion, the exact opposite of the blonde, red lipped and beautiful woman of the time) If snow be white, why then (enjamb or trochy, stress on why to express the contrast with what he is saying at the beginning of the line) her breasts are dun (brown and dark color); If hairs be wires, (two trochies) black wires grow (stress (to underline particular words, here the color dominating this woman) on black and grow) on her head. (implicit reference to the fashion of the Elizabethian Era of throwing golden wires between blonde hair, but here it is the exact opposite)