![]() ![]() But we're not fans of lame clichés, and we think it's pretty fun to watch Shakespeare go to town on them in this sonnet. ![]() Now, don't get us wrong, we're not anti-love poetry and we can get into the sappy stuff sometimes too. ![]() Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 is a parody of the kind of insincere, sickly sweet love poems that authors have been writing (and a lot of people have been hating) for centuries. By the time that Shakespeare came to write Sonnet 130, the traditional Petrarchan love sonnet was starting to look pretty worn-out.It seemed that poets, even the very best ones, had exhausted all. But, if you think sappy love poems are ridiculous, you're not alone – that's pretty much how Shakespeare felt too, and he spends these fourteen lines ripping that kind of poem apart. If we told you that the love poem we had in mind was over 400 years old, that might make it even worse, right? Old love poems bring to mind flowery language and the kind of unrealistic glop that you could never bring yourself to say with a straight face. So, when we say the words "love poem," what pops into your head? Maybe you've always thought that a love poem had to be sappy, like something you'd find in a Valentine's Day card. What is Sonnet 130 About and Why Should I Care? ![]()
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