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In William Shakespeare's sonnet "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun" the speaker uses a twisted version of the blazon technique, which lists and describes every body part of the mistress. The speaker expresses the idea that his mistres ....

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... "If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun" (3). During this time period the desired skin color was pale, and the speaker says that his mistress' breasts were a brownish-gray. "If hairs be wires, black wires grown on her head" (4). The speaker is saying that her hair is not soft, silky and smooth. The speaker goes to the extreme of saying her breath "reeks." When you hear the word "reeks" you imagine an awful smell and using this to describe her breath creates an image of not wanting to come face to face with her. But as you continue to read, the speaker says that she is a real person and is obtainable, unlike a mystical form such ...