english poetry C/W - Liz Lochhead - I wouldn't thank you for a Valentine and...

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...Shakespeare sonnet 130? i have to compare and contrast Liz Lochhead - I wouldn't thank you for a Valentine and Shakespeare sonnet 130.

i get the shakespeare poem i do not Liz Lochhead - any help would be fantastic. i just dont understand it. i've tried. i didn't even know what it was talking about until my teacher told me. Please help me.
 
Sonnet 130

This poem is about a girls that is not beautiful, she smells, her hair's all coarse like wire...etc. Then the poet, William Shakespeare, turns it all around by saying he loves her anyway.
The language usen in the poem include...
Subersion of traditional images of beauty (A* language technique) - many of the lines sound like they're going to be traditional images of woman's beauty. But Shakespeare goes against the reader's expectations by saying that his mistress isn't like theses images (shes's beautiful in a more genuine way).
Critical language - He sounds (William Shakespeare) pretty scathing about his mistress in the first part of the poem. This shows that he is comparing her to something beautiful, making a compliment into a criticism. This is used to compare her to her opposite.
Sonnet Form - the poem is in traditional sonnet form. It has fourteen lines and is in iambic pentameters. Sonnets are often used to show love in poetry.

I don't know the other poem, sorry. But all you have to do is pick out the techniques and compare them, e.g. I doubt that the other poem is written in sonnet form. This can show that the poem, Sonnet 130, is more about love than the other poem. To get a higher grade, you have to give other interpretations of the technique being used, e.g. however, Sonnet 130, is more critical about the girl being ugly, suggesting that the poem might have been written to tell the reader how looks don't matter.

I hope this helps...!
 
If you get Shakespeare's sonnet, then you're well on your way. That poem rejects a lot of the ridiculous, over-the-top comparisons that poets have traditionally used to describe the women they love. The speaker of the poem does not say that his lover isn't beautiful. He simply says that her eyes don't shine like the sun, that her skin is not as white as snow, that her hair is not a mass of fine golden wires, that her voice isn't like music, that she doesn't float through the air like a goddess, etc. Of course, those comparisons wouldn't be true about any woman. A poet who praises his love in such extravagant terms isn't talking about reality. In effect, he's saying that the only way he can love his woman is to turn her into an unreal fantasy object. But the speaker of Shakespeare's sonnet is saying that his woman's beauty and his love for her are so real that they don't need to be gussied up with all that "false compare." For its first 12 lines, the sonnet seems to be putting the woman down and saying that she's not attractive, but the final couplet turns it all around.

Lochhead's poem has very much the same structure. The speaker tells her lover that he could give her this love token and that love token and she wouldn't thank him. For most of the poem, she seems to be saying that she would reject his gifts and thus reject his love, but in the last two words of the poem, she also turns everything around. It turns out that what she has meant all along is that she wouldn't just thank him, she wouldn't merely thank him, she would do much more than thank him. His gifts would do much more than win a simple expression of gratitude. They would melt her heart.
 
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