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  2. Sonnet 127 - Wikipedia

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    The sonnet may also be understood as portraying an early reaction to women using cosmetics. The introduction of cosmetics should be viewed as a paradigm shift rather than a progression along the same spectrum. Margreta de Grazia reads Sonnet 127 in these terms: "Old values have been purged. Sweet beauty is stripped of her title (hath no name ...

  3. Dark Lady (Shakespeare) - Wikipedia

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    The Dark Lady is a woman described in Shakespeare's sonnets (sonnets 127–152), and so called because the poems make it clear that she has black wiry hair, and dark, "dun"-coloured skin. The description of the Dark Lady distinguishes itself from the Fair Youth sequence by being overtly sexual.

  4. Shakespeare's sonnets - Wikipedia

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    The Dark Lady sequence (sonnets 127–152) is the most defiant of the sonnet tradition. The sequence distinguishes itself from the Fair Youth sequence with its overt sexuality ( Sonnet 151 ). [ 38 ] The Dark Lady is so called because she has black hair and "dun" skin.

  5. Sonnet - Wikipedia

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    The term sonnet refers to a fixed verse poetic form, ... [127] Following the Second World War, avant-garde poets declared war on all formalism, ...

  6. Sonnet 154 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 153 and 154 are used as a statement to address the conflict within the love triangle. The Dark Lady is the object of desire from sonnet 127 to 152. The sonnets revolve around the love triangle between the poet and the Dark Lady who is in love with the young man. The young man maybe pursued by the poet also.

  7. Sonnet 129 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 129 is one of the 154 sonnets written by William Shakespeare and published in the 1609 Quarto. It is considered one of the "Dark Lady" sonnets (127–152). Overview

  8. Sonnet 125 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 125 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form abab cdcd efef gg, although (as discussed below) in this case the f rhymes repeat the sound of the a rhymes.

  9. Crown of sonnets - Wikipedia

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    Title page of Corona di rime per festeggiare il natalizio giorno di fille from 1748. An advanced form of crown of sonnets is also called a sonnet redoublé or heroic crown, comprising fifteen sonnets, in which the sonnets are linked as described above, but the final binding sonnet is made up of all the first or the last lines of the preceding fourteen, in order.