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Which statement best summarizes William Shakespeare's Sonnet 130?
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks:
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks
I love to hear her speak, yet well know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound
I grant I never saw a goddess go
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare
A.
Sonnet 130 compares and contrasts the speaker's mistress with beautiful elements in nature and finds her more beautiful
OB.
Sonnet 130 is a traditional love sonnet with the speaker giving numerous descriptions of his mistress's beauty and positive qualities.
OC. Sonnet 130 parodies a traditional love sonnet by bringing out the flaws in the physical beauty of the mistress
Sonnet 130 lists a multitude of flaws in the beauty of the mistress in order to show her in an uncomplimentary light
