What was your interpretation of sonnet 130 before watching the video? how has watching the video changed your interpretation of the poem?

My initial interpretation of the poem was that the speaker is praising the woman he loves. He says that her physical beauty is very different from what is traditionally considered the embodiment of beauty. The lady described in the poem has dull eyes (not at all bright like the sun), hair like “wires” instead of a silken mane, lips that are not close to the color of coral, and breasts that are nowhere close to snow in color. In other words, the speaker's lover does not match the ideals of beauty in the speaker's culture. But, in the final couplet, the speaker says that he still loves the lady despite her physical flaws or realistic features.

The video reinforced my interpretation, but it also added new information about how the speaker of the poem is mocking traditional love poetry, in which women are idealized as having flawless skin, red lips, and bright eyes. The poem seems to poke lighthearted fun at the clichéd images of women that was common in love poetry of the time.

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it ends with a marriage, but also with prospero giving up his power.

the tempest is a play written by william shakespeare between 1610-1611, it narrates the story of prospero a magician that sets a storm to wreck a ship, this sets the story to kill the king of naples. while it is a romantic style play, it isn´t traditional because of the ending, it end with the marriage and the magician giving up his powers.