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Originally Posted by mea
My guess is that the thread was meant for users to post their own hand-made (  ) poetry, not for quoting someone else's... but despite this fact, I'd like you all to read the most witty and famous sonnet by Shakespeare:
CXXX
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
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 more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound:
I grant I never saw a goddess go,
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,
As any she belied with false compare.
(should you have any problems with interpretation -> Shakespeare's Sonnets. The amazing web site. Commentary. Sonnet 130. ) |
In other words, I love my mistress because I love her, and making silly claims as to how she compares to things is not required. How interesting...yet hypocritical. Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, A Mid-Summer Night's Dream are all FULL of such comparisons =P. Though maybe it is true, as I cannot remember any specific lines...However, I am certain that a romantic comparison at one time sprouted from the pen of shakespeare.
(should you have any problems with interpretation ->
www.ToughluckIguessyoudon'tspeakenglish.com/LOL/tryingtomaketheURLlonger.co.il)