GCSE English Literature Poetry (10)

Sonnet 130

• Description
• Romantic poem exposing the truth about love.
• It is clear in meaning.
• Anti-love poem with the message that you don't have to be perfect in love, and that love doesn't have to be exaggerated.
• Language
• Comparisons in every other line - first colour comparisons - "coral is far redder than her lips red" 
• Repeating the word "red" emphasises the lack of colour in his wife's lips.
• The colours help to create powerful imagery for the reader.
• "why then her breasts are dun" - they are murky brown, she doesn't make an…