ENG220H1 Lecture 1: ENG220Y1 - September 8th 2014
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Shakespeare was not high culture, was accessible to all, pop culture for his time. Sonnets were published in 1609 but were composed earlier. First 126 are addressed to a young man; the remaining 127 were addressed to the. Negative comparisons, she is not the idealized woman, but he loves her still and his love is just as true as it would be if her eyes were like the sun etc. , no less. Love is rare, loves to hear her speak though she may not be the sun-eyed coral- lipped beauty that is on a pedestal at the time. If it were written today, could compare her to women in the magazines, her legs do not go on forever etc. The turn to sincerity is at the very end, rather late. She is not at all like that, but she is like what those bad comparisons are trying to get at. You"re as beautiful as a woman by nature"s hand.
