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Sonnet 130
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... Sonnet 130 Who is the speaker of the poem? The speaker of the poem could either be William Shakespeare or a love struck man whom Shakespeare is assuming the position of. What is he like? The persona in the poem uses a lot of negative comments to portray what he thinks about his wife. For example he says that "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun", which tells us that he does not like the colour of his mistress' eyes. Also by saying all this negative comments about his wife we can see that he does not care if his mistress finds. What is his attitude and his likes and dislikes? His attitude is mainly negative throughout the poem until the end where he praises the love that he and his mistress share. He dislikes the fact that his mistress' eyes are not like the sun, the way coral is redder that her lips, why














