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How Is Shakespeare Presented In Sonnet 130
Tamara Fisher Fisher1
English IV, Period 3
Mrs. Parsons
February 6, 2012
Comparing and Contrasting Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” and “Sonnet 130”
Many men find different things that attract them to certain women. In “Sonnet 18” and “Sonnet 130” William Shakespeare uses two different approaches to describe two opposite women he loves.
Even through the poems are very much alike the poems also have very different. Shakespeare starts off with a passionate tone as he describes his love as a “summer’s Day”. He states that she far prettier because a summer’s day is imperfect thing. He describes summer has “Too Hot” and having

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