Saturday, May 23, 2020
Does the Brutal Truth in Sonnet 130 and a Beautiful Young...
Does the brutal truth in Shakespeareââ¬â¢s ââ¬ËSonnet 130ââ¬â¢ and Swiftââ¬â¢s ââ¬ËA beautiful Young Nymph going to bedââ¬â¢, take away from the beauty of the two poems. Beauty and aesthetics can be defined as ââ¬Å"Nothing more nor less, than sensitivity to the sublime and the beautiful and an aversion to the ordinary and uglyâ⬠, this means that beauty can be absolutely anything which is beautiful as long as it is not ugly or ordinary, this may seem harsh, much like the poems by William Shakespeare and Jonathan Swift. In both poems; ââ¬ËSonnet 130ââ¬â¢ by William Shakespeare and ââ¬ËA beautiful young nymph going to bedââ¬â¢ by Jonathan Swift, aesthetic beauty is explored in a brutal and honest light. Shakespeareââ¬â¢s ââ¬ËSonnet 130ââ¬â¢ tells the story of a man describing his mistressâ⬠¦show more contentâ⬠¦It may seem romantic of Shakespeare to have kept his lover a secret, but we must remain aware that he did have a wife at home in Stratford upon Avon. The possible occupation of Shakespeareââ¬â¢s ââ¬ËDark Ladyââ¬â¢ gives a contextual link to Swiftââ¬â¢s poem; ââ¬ËA Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Be dââ¬â¢, as the role of prostitution is explored in this poem and there are suggestions that this was the role of the Dark Lady. The purpose of satire is to show what is bad or weak about something or someone through humour and exaggeration. Jonathan Swift is known as ââ¬ËThe Godfather of Satireââ¬â¢, Swift himself defined satire as; ââ¬Å"satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybodyââ¬â¢s faces but their ownââ¬â¢. Here, Swift explains how everyone who reads his satire will see how he is mocking everyone else, apart from themselves. The use of satire gives ââ¬ËA beautiful young nymph going to bedââ¬â¢ complexity when looking at the meaning, similarly to Sonnet 130, making it eligible for the canon of English Literature, as one of the requirements to be eligible is that the work has ââ¬Å"â⬠¦complexityâ⬠¦Ã¢â¬ . Swift published ââ¬ËA beautiful young nymph going to bedââ¬â¢ in 1734, the poem is satirical, and it satirise womenââ¬â¢s artificiality; ââ¬Å"Takes off her artificial hairâ⬠and their use of the male gaze. He wrote the poem in the 18th century, when around 63,000 prostitutes were working in London, a terrible time, as prostitutes became more popular and more common, sexually transmitted
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