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Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 130 stands out from the rest of the sonnets written by Shakespeare mainly from its witty and satirical stance point of the lover the speaker bears rather than doting on her from the beginning. Most sonnets tend to compare one 's lover to something beautiful or wonderful, but right from the beginning of this piece, it is evident that it doesn 't follow the same path. Comparatively, Shakespeare is well known for comparing lovers to 'summer 's day ', but Sonnet 130 skirts around the idea that one shouldn 't simply compare their lover to the improbable. In a sense, Shakespeare is almost mocking himself in this sonnet, as well as others who might have compared lovers and wives to things far more gracious than what could possibly be true. Elizabethan standards greatly differed from the standards that Shakespeare, himself, is pointing out in the sonnet he has written for this woman, and continues to break the
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This sonnet tackles both death and religion in a very hallowing manner. In the mind of the speaker, it’s as if the end could quite possibly be with Death for his calls him ‘No More’, though, when he mentions God later, one questions whether he believes in an afterlife. It is quite possible that he believes unless one commends themselves to God, that they will be a ‘nameless elf’ that ‘haunteth the lone regions where hath trod no foot of man’ and in that aspect, it’s quite possible that he’s talking about purgatory, a catholic belief. Purgatory was where a being went until they either redeem themselves or sully themselves further so they either go to Heaven or Hell. The fact that the speaker brings it up suggests that he is uncertain of where his soul might end up, and perhaps there is a little pang of fear within

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