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Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare is a love story. He describe the girl as someone who is not attractive, but he still loves her none the less. The purpose of the poem is to tell people that you don’t need to be worried about appearance. It’s what’s on the inside that really matters. Shakespeare is the speaker of this poem. It’s easy to see through the last few lines of the sonnet that he really loves this girl. It’s obvious that he can see through her non-attractiveness, but it’s also obvious that he does acknowledge the fact that she is very unattractive.
In the first twelve lines of the sonnet, he is describing her appearance, which would leave you to believe that he would have no interest in this girl. I think he went onto such detail just to show you that it doesn’t matter. Regardless of her appearance, his feelings for her are very strong. The poet uses several literary devices in the sonnet. The entire poem is one story of irony. He leads you to believe that he wants nothing to do with the girl by telling you how ugly she is, and then goes and tells you he loves her. It’s really not what anybody would see coming.
The poem is also somewhat of an oxymoron. He speaks of her looks the whole poem, then in the end, none of that really matter, and kind of contradicts itself. He has a very demeaning tone through the majority of the poem. He achieves this tone by talking badly about the subjects appearance. The tone does change to very kind and emotional in the last two lines. By telling us his feelings about her, it really changes the mood of the poem. I’m not a fan of poetry, by any means, but I do think this is a good poem. The poet gets all of his thoughts across, and they are things that many people could relate to.
I can personally relate to this poem. My situation was not to the same extreme as his situation, but is was a similar scenario. I knew this girl that I didn’t think was very attractive. I didn’t think she was ugly by any means, but she was no beauty pageant queen. We both got along very well and started dating. Don’t judge a book by it’s cover. That is the main focus of this poem. You never know what you could miss out on if you do. If you’re ever in a similar situation, think about sonnet 130, it could always end up changing things for the better.