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What Is Nothig Like The Night By William Shakespeare

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William shakespeare is known for his mastery of romantic poetry, and this mastery is made apparant when shakespeares sonnet 130 is compared to Francis Petrarch’s sonnet 90. Sonnet 130 and sonnet 90 contrast starkly with one another in more ways than just the physical descriptions of the poet’s love intrests, there are also vast differences between the messeges that the sonnets are conveying. Shakespeares Sonnet 130 begins in a very bleak manner by describing the eyes of his mistres as “nothig like the sun”. William continues this pattern of insults, describing her hair as black wires, her breath reeking and her voice unpleasing. Shakespeare justifies his rude comments in the last lines of the sonnet that read, “And yet, by heaven, I
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