FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
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they are both about the impermanence of beauty
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they are both about comparing someone’s beauty to something
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both conclude that something beyond mere physical appearance is a more valuable form of beauty
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -In William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130, the speakers praise the beauty of their lovers through abundant metaphors and figurative imagery that uphold the theme of appearance.
Detailed explanation-2: -The poem Sonnet 130 written by William Shakespeare and She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron both describe a woman’s beauty of whom they have feelings for. However Shakespeare points out the flaws within her beauty while Byron focuses on his admiration of the beauty.
Detailed explanation-3: -Shakespeare uses Sonnet 18 to praise his beloved’s beauty and describe all the ways in which their beauty is preferable to a summer day. The stability of love and its power to immortalize someone is the overarching theme of this poem.
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.