Sonnet 130 seems the most interesting of the sonnets you assigned. As I read the poem, I got the impression of a man looking through a mound of poetry in the hope of finding one that accurately describes the woman he loves. This coincides with verses 1-8 as he compares the appearance of his mistress to that commonly found in poetry describing women. As the poem continues, his tone becomes one of incredulity at the high bar poetry has forced women to conform to. Indeed, in verse 9 he adds, “I love to hear her speak”, which starts to infuse the thought that his mistress does not need perfect beauty for him to love her. Further, in verse 11 and, especially, in verse 12 as he mocks the thought that a woman must be otherworldly in order for him to love her. After searching through flowery words, he concludes that his love must be rare, since he has not found what he was looking for. Additionally, the last two verses finish the transformation from comparison of his mistress to poetry to comparison of the love he has for his mistress to the fake love written of in flowery poetry.
I found this intriguing because this concept continues on today with the advent of photoshoped images, weight-loss diets, and fast-working complexion enhancers. Many young girls have made themselves ill and even died because they were chasing after a false beauty they could never attain. The rare love has become even rarer because there are now more believable descriptions of the perfect woman. The most relied upon sense is sight, so the most powerful medium is images: be they still or moving. Since images can now be faked just as easily as text, honest love has been buried by the “Say what she wants to hear.” mentality.
What caught my attention the most last Wednesday was that others dislike driving as much as I do, if not more. I still do not have my driver’s license since I would rather carpool, saving money, than drive myself somewhere. Compounding my dislike of driving is the routine I have fallen into as I consistently avoid driving. It would take me ten or more minutes after I got in the car to realize that I “wanted” to drive today. Further complicating matters, my permit expired a few months ago and it will more than likely be embarrassing to go into the secretary of states office and get a new one. Thus, it has become difficult to get a permit in order to practice driving, let alone find the opportunity to drive. Unfortunately, my lack of a license means that I cannot move out of the house by myself as I live out in the country. This also means that job opportunities are limited and the possibility of traveling outside of the state, let alone America, rather impossible.
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