ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The most notable poetic device is antithesis, the use of opposites, as the poet breaks his mistress into body parts that are negatives of praise: “nothing like the sun, ” “coral is much more red, ” “her breasts are dun” and “black wires spring from her head.” The device fragments the mistress.

Detailed explanation-2: -Simile: It occurs in the first two lines: “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; / Coral is far more red than her lips’ red”. Metaphor: Readers can find an implicit comparison between music and human voice in this line “That music hath a far more pleasing sound”.

Detailed explanation-3: -"Sonnet 130” opens with a simile-or, at least, something like a simile. The speaker uses the word “like” to compare two unlike things: his mistress’ eyes and the sun. But he says that her eyes are nothing like the sun, blocking the connection between the two things at the same moment he suggests it.

Detailed explanation-4: -Summary: Sonnet 130 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-5: -Sonnet 130 follows the rhyme scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG. The first twelve lines rhyme in alternating pairs. They are devoted to the main idea of the poem, with the poet talking of his mistress in less than complimentary terms. These lines list the different things that you can praise about somebody.