 | R. A. Foakes - Performing Arts - 2000 - 332 pages
...her conventional beauty as by her spirit and wit — why else did Shakespeare write Sonnet 130? My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. Duncan-Jones thinks that there could surely be no question of the woman described in Sonnets either... | |
 | Louise McConnell - 2000 - 344 pages
...employed in I6th-century poetry, particularly in love poems. Shakespeare parodies this in Sonnet I30: 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head'. Condell 60 Condell, Henry (d. 1627) A principal actor with Shakespeare's company of players the LORD... | |
 | Ellen F. Davis - Religion - 2000 - 324 pages
...popular also among European poets until Shakespeare effectively ended the tradition with his parody: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. (Sonnet 130) Although some scholars also read the present poem as a parody, such a reading sets it... | |
 | Jamie Lorentzen - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 236 pages
...his ethicists are not unlike the narrator of Shakespeare's sonnet 130, the latter of whom states: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses I see in her cheeks, And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress... | |
 | Frances Mayes - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 548 pages
...conventional exaggerated comparisons made in love poems. SONNET CXXX (William Shakespeare, 1564-1616) My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grown on her head. I have seen roses damasked,1 red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks;... | |
 | Richard Stengel - Social Science - 2002 - 326 pages
...courtly flattery and in doing so created one of the greatest love poems ever written, Sonnet 130. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more... | |
 | Rob Pope - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 448 pages
...hands 5. 1.2 a WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, 'My mistress' eyes' (Sonnet 130), written c. 1594-9, pub. 1609 My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, 5 But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more... | |
 | Brian Vickers - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 600 pages
...heaven itself for ornament doth use') and, more memorably, in the burlesque blazon of Sonnet 13n: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grows on her head. Both poems poke fun at the conventional Petrarchan comparisons, still found in Spenser's... | |
 | John Carrington - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...are wittily tongue-in-cheek; some impassioned and soul-searching. Take, for example, Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more... | |
 | Simon Brittan - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 242 pages
...compare you to a summer's day? The point is made even more clearly in this other famous sonnet: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks, And in some perfumes is there more... | |
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Coral is far more red than her lips' red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there... 
