LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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as a perfect being
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as harlots
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as gold-diggers
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as simple
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Detailed explanation-1: -Women in Shakespeare’s Sonnets are represented in a deeply misogynistic manner, and are frequently seen within them as less valuable, honest, and loving, than men are portrayed to be. Sonnets directed to a male lover demonstrate deep affection and mutual respect in their representations of love.
Detailed explanation-2: -A poetic form is a type of poem: each form has its own “rules” and is associated with particular themes. Sonnets are associated with desire: for centuries poets have used the frame of the sonnet to explore the complicated human experience of romantic love.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -In ”Sonnet 18”, Shakespeare uses natural imagery to describe outer beauty, but he then turns the imagery inward, applying his words directly to his beloved: one with a true inner beauty that exceeds outer beauty.