Read More: Best Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet 130 (Original Text) It’s an interesting one, and there’s quite a bit to unpack here so let’s take a look. But on the other, it’s being used in an almost satirical way to knock these poets writing Blazons down a few pegs. But does that excuse writing these terrible things about her? Or even the use of her body as a tool in some battle with other poets to prove how clever the Poet is? On the one hand, it’s packed to the brim with insults about someone else’s looks. But in the rhyming couplet, he turns it all around. He spends the majority of the sonnet almost insulting the subject. What Shakespeare was doing in this sonnet was flipping the Blazon on its head and almost making fun of the poets that wrote them. The device was made popular by Petrarch and used extensively by Elizabethan poets. A literary blazon (or blason) catalogues the physical attributes of a subject, usually female. In order to explain what I mean, we need to first understand what a Blazon was/is. Now, this sonnet is an interesting one in that it can almost fall into the world of satire.
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