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Comparing Romeo And Juliet And Shakespeare's Sonnet X

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William Shakespeare’s work was composed of many main ideas, themes and moods. Two examples to prove that is comparing Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” and Shakespeare’s sonnet CXXX (130). Both texts are entirely different because while one may focus on describing the beauty in something the other is the exact opposite and describes the repulsiveness. The text that describes beauty is “Romeo and Juliet”, while the main purpose of the play is to be a tragedy it has many examples of love and beauty. Shakespeare lived in era where love was (most often) compared to nature. Many poets and play writers (like him) would use metaphors and it was such a common thing that it turned into something more like a cliché. Shakespeare noticed this and

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