The Theme of Love in Sonnet 130 , Anne Hathaway, Havisham and The Laboratory

The Theme of Love in Sonnet 130 , Anne Hathaway, Havisham and The Laboratory

First of all I will be talking about William Shakespere’s Sonnet 130.

Now this poem has a rather odd element to the other poems. Some may

say this is romantic but others may disagree. Now the people who

disagree have justified this by the way of writing and the use of

words. Where the opening line is

“ My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;” This line is straight

away implementing that either he is saying his lovers eyes are so

beautiful that they cannot even be compared to the sun or he is saying

his lovers eyes are nothing like the sun’s. Now we find out what he

means by reading the second line “Coral is far more red then her lips’

red”. Now we certainly know that the author is actually being rude,

and the picture I was getting, was his lover was quite an unattractive

woman. He compares her using metaphors to for every part of her body

and dishearten her. But he describes her as an earthly and realistic

woman. All woman normally in poetry are belied with false metaphors to

describe them, but the author of this poem had not misrepresented his

lover using fake metaphors to describe her. He is illustrating to us

that she is a normal woman and love is not based on physical beauty,

but rather their mental personality. The author knows women are not

the perfect beauties that they are portrayed to be and that men should

love them anyway. This is implied in the last two lines “And yet, by

heaven, I think my love as rare, As any she belied with false

compare”.

Secondly I will be analysing Carol Ann Duffy’s poem Anne Hathaway. Now

this is the same sort of poem as Sonnet 130. Personally I think the

speaker of the poem was quite mad and was hurt after having bad

experience with men. It says on the top of the poem shakespere left